They're very wary, the new coyotes here at the house, and hard to photograph. The female shows up first, gives the dogs a quick glance then lopes up the hill and out of sight. She's not looking but check out her ear -- she's listening to us on the deck behind her.

A few seconds later comes the rest of her clan, two young males, I think, eating up the distance in that quick, efficient trot. The sound in the video is the wind, which for a few hours, had the whole house rocking.