Looking for Coyotes

A quest to photograph the elusive urban coyotes led me on an exploration of the creeks in our neighborhood. I wouldn’t really recommend doing this: the water is not clean; snakes, snapping turtles, and ticks stand ready to launch. There is poison ivy everywhere and complete strangers willingly tell tales about rabid raccoons and aggressive copperhead snakes. But the reward is in finding yourself surrounded by lovely lush vegetation, seemingly miles away from the big city while wading down the middle of a stream close to Ponce de Leon Avenue. My companions were the animals that make the creeks their home: the beavers repairing their dams on the Candler Park golf course,  a damselfly fluttering around  Fernbank Creek, and turtles sunning themselves in the creek on the Druid Hills golf course.

Coyotes are hard to spot and even harder to photograph. So far, most of my photos are of everything but coyotes that I encountered by following the tributaries of Peavine Creek in Candler Park and Druid Hills.


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