Call of the Coyote

When I was on a walk with friends on Sunday morning, we were walking along the path down by the edge of the Bow River in the LaFarge area. For maybe 45 minutes or an hour, we heard the distant call/bark of a Coyote. It was a little difficult to tell if it was just a single animal or more, but the sound didn't stop. When we climbed up to the main path, we were able to see this lone Coyote, way across open grassland and on a slight hill near the extremely distant houses. This is a fully-zoomed and heavily cropped image of an animal that I could barely see with my naked eye, lol. It always amazes me how you can get a photo from such a very long distance. Always worth trying. Despite the awful graininess, I liked the head tilted and mouth open in mid-call. It seemed very strange behaviour - I wonder if it had a mate with it, that was in trouble. Guess I'll never know ....