This morning we saw in the snow that the coyote walked up to our coops and sat down for what had to have been an interesting converstion with our birds.  After a while (the snow began to fill in the tracks), the coyote circled and made fresh tracks over its older ones and backtracked... only to smell and see how a family of quail had made tracks over its own while he was trying to entice our birds out of their home!  The quail made for a safer hiding place after the coyote passed.

After circling in distress, the coyote left for an entirely differnt direction.

What a dissapointing night (for the coyote)