{"id":4524,"date":"2012-02-24T04:58:03","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T11:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=4524"},"modified":"2026-02-18T15:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T21:40:13","slug":"coyote-on-the-run-friday-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2012\/02\/24\/coyote-on-the-run-friday-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Coyote On The Run ~ Friday Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been seeing a pair of Coyotes hunting together regularly on the island, yesterday I was able to get a few images of one of them as it ran along the road.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload aligncenter wp-image-169567 size-full\" title=\"Coyote running along a road, Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/coyote-running-mia-mcpherson-5052.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/coyote-running-mia-mcpherson-5052.jpg\" alt=\"Coyote running along a road, Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah\" width=\"850\" height=\"607\" data-id=\"11166\" 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-running-mia-mcpherson-5052-200x143.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/coyote-running-mia-mcpherson-5052-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/coyote-running-mia-mcpherson-5052-400x286.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/coyote-running-mia-mcpherson-5052-600x428.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/coyote-running-mia-mcpherson-5052-768x548.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/coyote-running-mia-mcpherson-5052.jpg 850w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Coyote running along a road &#8211;<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Nikon D300, f6.3, 1\/1000, ISO 640, +0.3 EV, Nikkor 200-400mm VR with 1.4x TC at 350mm, natural light, not baited or called in<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A few weeks ago I saw what I believe to be this same pair mating so\u00a0there might be pups around the first week of April.<\/p>\n<p>Normally I&#8217;d prefer to get a cleaner view of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inaturalist.org\/taxa\/42051-Canis-latrans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Coyote<\/span><\/a> for images but in this case I enjoy the habitat in the frame. A little bit more of a head turn would have been great to have more light on the Coyote&#8217;s face.<\/p>\n<p>Life <em>is<\/em> good.<\/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 view more of my Coyote photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normally I&#8217;d prefer to get a cleaner view of the Coyote for images but in this case I enjoy the habitat in the frame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":169567,"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":[511,100,26],"tags":[58,733,4002,3347,11978,2326,4148,30,4032,373],"class_list":["post-4524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antelope-island-state-park","category-coyotes","category-utah","tag-antelope-island-sp","tag-canis-latrans","tag-coyote","tag-coyotes","tag-desert-island","tag-road","tag-running","tag-utah-2","tag-wildlife-photography","tag-winter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/coyote-running-mia-mcpherson-5052.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11Mom-1aY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18750,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2015\/01\/21\/antelope-islands-coyotes-on-a-bright-winter-day\/","url_meta":{"origin":4524,"position":0},"title":"Antelope Island&#8217;s Coyotes On A Bright Winter Day","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"January 21, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday was a Coyote kind of day for me seeing two Coyotes fight, a pair chase off an intruding Coyote and another pair with an intruding Coyote following them.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Antelope Island State Park&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Antelope Island State Park","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/category\/locations\/utah\/antelope-island-state-park\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Snarling Coyotes, Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/coyote-snarling-mia-mcpherson-5644.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/coyote-snarling-mia-mcpherson-5644.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/coyote-snarling-mia-mcpherson-5644.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/coyote-snarling-mia-mcpherson-5644.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":14457,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2014\/02\/27\/coyotes-on-the-antelope-island-state-park-causeway\/","url_meta":{"origin":4524,"position":1},"title":"Coyotes on the Antelope Island State Park Causeway","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"February 27, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Starting the day photographing Coyotes always makes me want to howl with delight. 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