
The same coyote glancing over its left shoulder continues trotting quickly along the edge of the ponds grasses to get past me on the path and into the cover of some nearby trees.

A wary coyote with golden eyes, perked up ears, and gray-brown fur trots quickly across the grassy edges of a hiking path next to a wetlands pond, with some scrub and tall cattail grasses in the background.

Looking down at the edge of a wetlands pond lined with a variety of green and drying vegetation, including some brown curly dock, tall, thistly teasels, some mullein spikes, and others. The calm waters of the pond have a thin layer of yellow-green algae on the near side, and some green trees from the far side reflected in the water. The bright morning sun is glinting off the water in a spot near the shoreline and backlighting some of the vegetation growing on the banks.

Looking across a calm, still wetlands pond, with some yellow-green algae in the water on the near side and open waters beyond that are reflecting a variety of green trees and vegetation on the far side and the clear blue morning skies above.