{"id":27005,"date":"2015-07-31T03:56:23","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T09:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=27005"},"modified":"2026-02-23T05:23:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T11:23:22","slug":"pooping-coyote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2015\/07\/31\/pooping-coyote\/","title":{"rendered":"Pooping Coyote &#8211; Oh Crap, She Is Aiming Her Glass At Me Again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload aligncenter wp-image-170139 size-full\" title=\"Pooping Coyote, Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/coyote-pooping-mia-mcpherson-9743.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/coyote-pooping-mia-mcpherson-9743.jpg\" alt=\"Pooping Coyote, Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah\" width=\"850\" height=\"607\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27850%27%20height%3D%27607%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20850%20607%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27850%27%20height%3D%27607%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/coyote-pooping-mia-mcpherson-9743-200x143.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/coyote-pooping-mia-mcpherson-9743-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/coyote-pooping-mia-mcpherson-9743-400x286.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/coyote-pooping-mia-mcpherson-9743-600x428.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/coyote-pooping-mia-mcpherson-9743-768x548.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/coyote-pooping-mia-mcpherson-9743.jpg 850w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Pooping Coyote &#8211; Nikon D810, f13, 1\/640, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light, not baited or called in<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>If this pooping <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inaturalist.org\/taxa\/42051-Canis-latrans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Coyote<\/span><\/a> could talk I wonder what she would say? Please feel free to add a caption in the comments!<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Hey lady, a little privacy?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Sure, just my luck that there are hundreds of birds around and she aims her lens at me!<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Why can&#8217;t I go in peace?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">I can&#8217;t say I am happy about this at all!<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Where is a rock when you need one to hide behind?<\/p>\n<p>Life <em>is<\/em> good. And funny at times too!<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t resist taking images of this Coyote as they went about their business. Some might say it is a crappy photo and they would be 100% correct.<\/p>\n<p>Mia<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/coyote-images\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my Coyote photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If this pooping Coyote could talk I wonder what she would say? Please feel free to add a caption in the comments! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":170139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[511,100,1022,26],"tags":[4226,4002,3347,6652,3918,4005,3917,4188,102,4032],"class_list":["post-27005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antelope-island-state-park","category-coyotes","category-davis-county-utah","category-utah","tag-behavior","tag-coyote","tag-coyotes","tag-crap","tag-defacating","tag-great-salt-lake","tag-pooping","tag-shoreline","tag-wildlife","tag-wildlife-photography"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/coyote-pooping-mia-mcpherson-9743.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11Mom-71z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":139730,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2025\/02\/11\/wet-coyote-pup-at-sequoyah-national-wildlife-refuge\/","url_meta":{"origin":27005,"position":0},"title":"Wet Coyote Pup At Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"February 11, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Today, I'm sharing a cute, but very wet Coyote pup I photographed last July at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Coyotes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Coyotes","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/category\/wildlife\/coyotes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Wet Coyote pup in a field at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/coyote-pup-in-colorful-field-mia-mcpherson-5298.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/coyote-pup-in-colorful-field-mia-mcpherson-5298.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/coyote-pup-in-colorful-field-mia-mcpherson-5298.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/coyote-pup-in-colorful-field-mia-mcpherson-5298.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":131152,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2024\/07\/24\/coyote-on-the-move-at-sequoyah-nwr\/","url_meta":{"origin":27005,"position":1},"title":"Coyote On The Move At Sequoyah NWR","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"July 24, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday, there was some excitement at the refuge. 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