I went out last week to attempt to call in and photograph a coyote. I had an afternoon where the sun was peeking in and out of clouds, great lighting. I took my Nikon D300, Sigma 80-400 and a tripod. I took a padded seat and some camoflage netting and a cottontail rabbit distress call (mouth).
I cut a hole in the netting near an edge to fit over my lens behind the lens hood. It then draped around the tripod in front of me and blended me better with the large tree I was sitting in front of.
I'd made two one minute series of calls and was attemting to take a photo of an interested red-tailed hawk, when the first coyote suddenly appeared. There 5 total and they came at a full run one at a time. Only one animal was stationary at any point. I was only able to photo 4 of the 5 and took 32 images in 21 seconds, that's how fast it happened! ISO 500, f7.1, and 1/500 to 1/800 ss, I was shooting Aperture priority.
All the more impressive shots knowing they were truly wild. Maybe I'm imagining it but I swear you can see their intent in their eyes in those first 2 shots.
