On The Road with Mike Drew: How to ruin a coyote's lunch plans yyc
Big, with fluffed-out fur and a stumpy tail, the coyote was hard to miss against the white of the snow. But so were the partridges maybe 30 metres in front of it. Bunched together and busily pecking at whatever was underneath the snow, they might have noticed the coyote as they pecked but they didn’t seem to be bothered by it.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary SUN, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.
We spent five minutes like that, the partridges tense, the coyote annoyed and me waiting with the camera at my eye in case something happened. I was somewhere west of Didsbury on the height of land between the Little Red Deer River and Dogpound Creek. The day was cool but not terribly cold and though the sky was mostly cloudy, the sun was finding the occasional breach to shine through. It was, actually, pretty nice.Article contentI’ve gotta admit that I kinda neglect this part of southern Alberta. There’s no particular reason for that. I mean, it’s just as easy to go north as it is to go any other direction.
Below the dam and in the Red Deer River valley itself, the water flows ice-free but though I expected to find ducks and geese here, there were actually very few. Lots of construction going on so that may be why. Larches — or tamaracks — just suddenly appear here. True, they grow in a few other spots further east and they’re likely more common on north but it seems like every low spot in the Raven River and Stauffer Creek valleys are full of them.Mike Drew/Postmedia
There were flocks of siskins and other small birds flitting around over the willow flats while at the far edge where the valley slopes rise to the south I found a momma moose and her baby relaxing by a frozen pond. Moose love willows so finding them there was no surprise at all.
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