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Science! Coyote fun facts

I met this coyote on the Palouse. Our coyotes are mountain coyotes.

Of all the other wild dogs, the coyote is closest to the grey wolf, but it fills a jackal nitch in the Americas.

Unlike their pleistocene ancestors, modern coyotes have teeth that help them eat fruits, berries and grasses.

They live in Northern and Central America only. Coyote populations have risen since wolves became endangered.

Most wolves have some amount of coyote DNA, though coyotes are not specialized carnivores.

Startled quail

South

She like a diamond shone, but you
Shine like an early drop of dew

Robert Frost

Fairy dust

Palouse

Where the fire stopped

At sunset

Bonus: Tinysaur

Roamin

Morning glory

In the afternoon

Wonderful sky

With contrails pointing to the airport

Dragonfly carapace

At home

Nature's pinholes

Man, that was cool.

Turning leaves

Riverfront Park

Eclipse projections through mesh

Who walks with beauty has no need of fear;
The sun and moon and stars keep pace with him;
Invisible hands restore the ruined year,
And time itself grows beautifully dim.
One hill will keep the footprints of the moon
That came and went a hushed and secret hour;
One star at dusk will yeild the lasting boon;
Remembered beauty's white immortal flower.

Who takes of beauty, wine and daily bread
Will know no lack when bitter years are lean;
The brimming cup is by, the feast is spread;
The sun and moon and stars his eyes have seen
Are for his hunger and his thirst he slakes:
The wine of beauty and the bread he breaks.

David Morton

Mellow evening

Palouse

Creature of the night

In a tree

Bonus: wildlife

Find the friend and count his points

A nice young couple

Chip or Dale?

There's a wart on the frog on the bump on a log

He thinks he's hiding

Thistles

Fish Lake Trail 

Artistic downtown shot number five

million and twelve

Science! Latah formation

Mixed up with flood basalts, it's old lake beds.

Millions of years old, too.

They mingle in many different ways.

Some dramatically.

You can find bits of trees in it here and there.

Fossils are literally falling out of the ground.

Literally.

I have no idea what this is, but it looks interesting.

This isn't apparently fossilized even after all these years.

It brings that time very close.

It's exhaustin'

Bein' a beagle

A sunset with no smoke in it

How novel.

Frutta di Mare

I am a sea-shell flung
Up from the ancient sea.
Now I lie here, among
The roots of a tamarisk tree;
No one listens to me.

Geoffrey Scott

Last year's burn

Yale

Ducks at sunset

Cheney-Spokane Rd

Bonus: elk

Three male elk crossed the road in front of us beside Latah Creek at noon on a Saturday.
Omigod

Omigodomigod

I have only seen tule elk before this, which are pretty small. 

These are big elk. The only species of deer in North America that rivals it for size is the moose.

It's the third largest member of the deer family in the world.

Nick did keep telling me that I 'd see elk.