Coyote

Carol Clarke wrote: I am intrigued.  Normally Coyotes have brown/golden eyes.  Unless it is a trick of the light you complain about when you took the photos, it looks like you have spotted and photographed one of the rare coyotes with the blue eye mutation, Craig!  Do your other images show the eyes as blue? 

A click shows the nice detail you caught - and I would be more than happy with this sighting and the images.  Thanks for sharing this find!  

Carol.

Craig Lipski wrote:

Carol Clarke wrote: I am intrigued.  Normally Coyotes have brown/golden eyes.  Unless it is a trick of the light you complain about when you took the photos, it looks like you have spotted and photographed one of the rare coyotes with the blue eye mutation, Craig!  Do your other images show the eyes as blue? 

A click shows the nice detail you caught - and I would be more than happy with this sighting and the images.  Thanks for sharing this find!  

Carol.

Interesting!  I've never paid attention to the eye color, I'm rarely close enough to  pay close attention.  All the shots are from the same angle, but I have the coyote facing right, left, and toward me, and in all of them the eyes look pretty much the same.  I'm not sure I'd call them "blue", but they're sure not brown, even golden would be a stretch.  And in the posted image, one eye is lit, one is shaded, and both look to be roughly the same color.  I'm going to have to look into that!  Thanks for the kind words as well as the info!