Geraint
April 9, 2017
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Coyote stalking prey moving through the lava rocks, sage and cholla cactus early one morning in the Orilla Verde Recreation Area, Pilar, New Mexico. It paused numerous times to briefly acknowledge our presence, loped off, and continued its foraging between rocks and sage only to perch on another rock with a good vantage point and make eye contact again. Moving adeptly, confidently, over the unstable terrain the coyote swiftly gained ground and left us watchers in its wake as it crossed the road ahead and vanished in to the red willows along the Rio Grande.
![Coyote Morning Along The Rio Grande coyote_orilla_verde_nra_1633-8618265](https://geraintsmith.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/coyote_orilla_verde_NRA_1633-8618265.jpg)