This morning on my farm circle, I witnessed something which, according to The Wild Mammals of Missouri, happens a few times over a space of five days only once a year — a Coyote couple going boom boom. The picture above was taken at a range of about a quarter mile with a Canon PowerShot SX160. I was walking along just inside my fence line and the Coyotes were on a hillside in a grain field. When I first observed them, they were play fighting the way two dogs often do, Next time I stopped and looked, they were back to back. They remained this way as I proceeded up my property line and dropped out of their view. I then crossed the fence, hoping to be near them when I came up over a rise. Bridge was about to cap the rise ahead of me. I cautioned him to wait, so I could cap the rise first.
In Cautioning Bridge, I forgot that the Coyotes could hear me if Bridge could hear me. Three were gone and the last was on the move when I crested the rise. This was my first time for witnessing this kind of behavior in any kind of wild animal.