NORTH BOSQUE BIKE TRAIL--Don't tell me you can't recognize that blur on the ditchbank as a coyote. He really looked fat and healthy. And fast. I took the shot, but had to do it one-handed with the LED washed out with sunlight while I was riding my bike.Excuses...excuses.
Nevertheless, that IS a picture of a fast-moving coyote just south of I-40 and wes
t of the bike trail. Then I happened upon several piles of coyote scat right on the trail.Many of you know that coyotes like to mark the territory with scat, even to the point of depositing it on top of rocks near a trail.
Well anyway, I was riding along and swerving to keep my tires fairly clean when something red caught my eye in one of the piles. I rode on for a ways, then told bike-partner Bob, "I've got to go back and look
at something."I didn't want to tell him it was a pile of shit.
That shit had a lot of red in it. I looked closer. I thought there must be fingernails in there. I got off my bike and looked a lot closer. Nope. Apple skins. What a relief. That coyote is eating good. No wonder he looked so fat and sassy.
You know it's Halloween when "OMG fingernails" is the first thing to come to mind when you see apple skins :)
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