
It had been exactly one month since I last saw and photographed a Coyote along the Ferrari Pond Trail. On May 13, I photographed a small pup near the Salt Pond. A couple of adults were supervising from a distance as the little one played in the dried bullrushes with one of its littermates. Since that sighting, I have seen no Coyotes along the trail until yesterday morning. I went expecting to see the American White Pelicans that had arrived the previous morning but they were no where to be found. As I walked to the Salt Pond with a couple of other photographers I encountered along the way, we met a friend who said he’d just seen at least two pups that had disappeared into the drainage pipes under trail. As we chatted, I realized that a pup was out in the open near the drainage pipe below us, soaking in a little sunshine on the unseasonably windy and chilly morning. The pup kept his eyes on us and then finally laid down, still watching us as he basked in the morning sun. That pup’s grown up a bit since I last saw him.