{"id":23141,"date":"2015-04-28T04:39:28","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T10:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=23141"},"modified":"2026-02-22T12:39:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T18:39:31","slug":"a-pair-of-coyotes-and-a-missing-canine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2015\/04\/28\/a-pair-of-coyotes-and-a-missing-canine\/","title":{"rendered":"Pair of Coyotes and a Missing Canine Tooth"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PairPair of Coyotes on the north end of Antelope Island – Nikon D810, f7.1, 1\/1250, ISO 400, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light, not baited
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No, I am not talking about someone missing their dog Spot or Buster in the title where I have “Missing Canine!”<\/p>\n

But I’ll get to that.<\/p>\n

I saw two Coyotes right after arriving on Antelope Island yesterday that were bathed in the soft light of dawn, I can’t resist taking images of the beautiful “Song Dogs” that I see and I couldn’t resist this pair.<\/p>\n

\"CoyoteCoyote Raspberry – Nikon D810, f7.1, 1\/1000, ISO 400, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light, not baited<\/span><\/p>\n

One of the Coyotes wasn’t very cooperative after the image above was taken and kept its back to me and it sure looks like the other one is giving me a raspberry.<\/p>\n

\"YawningYawning Coyote – Nikon D810, f7.1, 1\/1000, ISO 400, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light, not baited<\/span><\/p>\n

Or maybe it was just still sleepy.<\/p>\n

\"AReally big Coyote Yawn – Nikon D810, f7.1, 1\/1250, ISO 400, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light, not baited<\/span><\/p>\n

This is about as big as I have ever seen a Coyote yawn! But there is something missing in this picture. I don’t know what caused it but this Coyote is missing its left lower canine tooth.<\/p>\n

\"CoyoteCoyote with a missing canine tooth – Nikon D810, f7.1, 1\/1250, ISO 400, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light, not baited<\/span><\/p>\n

This is a large crop that shows a gap where the canine tooth used to be. I am not worried about this Coyote though because it will do just fine without that one missing tooth.<\/p>\n

The Coyotes seemed to be searching the grasses and sagebrush for ground nesting bird eggs or perhaps the chicks but while I observed them they didn’t take any prey.<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to view more of my Coyote photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I saw two Coyotes right after arriving on Antelope Island yesterday that were bathed in the soft light of dawn, I can’t resist taking images of the beautiful “Song Dogs” that I see and I couldn’t resist this pair. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":170089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[511,100,26,99],"tags":[4004,9535,733,4002,3347,3981,3692,2138,8768,4035,2139,4057,165,9536,102,340],"class_list":["post-23141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antelope-island-state-park","category-coyotes","category-utah","category-wildlife","tag-adult","tag-canine-tooth","tag-canis-latrans","tag-coyote","tag-coyotes","tag-davis-county","tag-grassses","tag-mates","tag-missing","tag-nature-photography","tag-pair","tag-sagebrush","tag-spring","tag-tooth","tag-wildlife","tag-yawning"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t