Cool and windy today, real windy!
Had to drive up to Sweetgrass and take care of some business. Had the wife and dogs along. Dogs got a little rambunctious so I decided we would drive one of the stubblefields and let the dogs out for a bit and see what kinda deer sign we could see.
As we were driving back towards the road along a fence line, we were headed into the wind which was screaming about 35-40 mph. We came over a rise and there across the fence line walking away from us along a furrow, head down hunting was a coyote. He was about 50 yards away and I had no gun and no camera and he did not see us. We creeped allong behind him for a couple of minutes and he still didn't spook. Finally I pulled up along side him about 20 yards away and stopped the truck and yelled "hey stupid" His head popped up and he looked around. He looked right at us and still didn't spook. The he started casting back and forth with his head up, nose to the wind and them started towards us. He got to the weeds in the fence line about 20 feet from us and all we could see was his ears. We could see him bounce up and down trying to find us. I yelled, "over her stupid" and we could see his nose sticking up over the weeds. He cast back a forth a few more minutes and then he got directly down wind of us. He lurched and froze, then turned and walked away towards Canada about 100 yards behind us. He would move a few yards and stop looked back at us, cast, then move again, but he never spooked. Finally I started driving away. The coyote never spooked just wandered away and last we saw him he was still hunting.
That was a lot more fun than shooting him. He looked prime which seems unusual given how warm it's been. I wonder if the boys up north are still hunting coyotes, it sure seems this one hasn't been hunted before.
This sure was a lot more fun than a trip to the Mall!
