Readers’ wildlife photos and videos

April 19, 2025 • 9:45 am

As you’re digesting this Eastern weekend, how about putting some wildlife photos together for this feature?

Today we have some coyote videos from Kathy Mechling and a few Easter flowers from Patricia Morris. Their captions are indented and you can enlarge the photos by clicking on them.

First, the wild d*gs (coyotes) from Kathy. Sound up!

Some of our more charismatic neighbors here in the Illinois Valley in SW.  Oregon.

First: find both coyotes:

Second: the second coyote is a little more obvious:

The reveal. She was curled up there all along:

Lagniappe: the pair harmonizing with distant fire engines:

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As I don’t know from flowers, readers will have to identify them for themselves. These were sent on March 21:

It might be hard to believe amidst a blizzard but spring is coming.  Just a few domestic flowers from central coast California to prove my point and cheer your day.

9 thoughts on “Readers’ wildlife photos and videos”

    1. The yellow ones are definitely pansies.

      The white one could be a narcissus.

      Don’t know about the pink ones.

  2. Thanks Kathy and Patricia. Are you this close to the coyotes or is this a motion-detected auto cam. Just curious, but regardless are nice sharp videos of these guys. And the flowers (and associated pollen) are in full bloom here in southeastern virginia. When I opened shutters in den at 6:30 this morning, a large bloom azaela had just come out across the back yard. All bright pink and beautiful …. like your pictures.

    1. Hi Jim, The coyotes posed in front of a GardePro Trail Cam. It’s at the site where we leave the carved out TG turkey carcass for the critters to dispose of. The grey fox usually scores.

  3. My d*g got very interested in the coyote calls.

    Hyacinths and snap-dragons.
    Pansies
    fancy Daffodils
    Don’t know the last one. Irises, maybe.

  4. Awwww! Always such a treat to see wild animals just doing their everyday things, not reacting to us dangerous intrusive humans.

  5. I didn’t get any hyacinths and snap-dragons! The rest are pansies, double narcissus, and cyclamen.

  6. I love the coyote videos!!! More please.

    The IDs on the flowers were pretty much correct. I didn’t send those to Jerry originally as a ‘post’, just a bit of eye candy for someone in northern climes. The pansies are in the ‘Frizzle sizzle’ series. The narcissus is ‘Tahiti’ – lightly fragrant. That is a ruffled Cyclamen. I can’t see the hyacinth pic, but they were with Linaria, closely related to snapdragons, but much smaller.

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