Had an encounter while working a bird in MO this year that I will never forget.
The bird was gobbling good and went silent on me so I had the gun up and ready for what seemed like forever! All of a sudden I heard a bunch of splashing and commotion of a wood duck down the hill in a small creek that runs through a pasture. As I come out of the woods I seen a coyote chasing the wood duck hen who would not leave the area as she had a bunch of little ones following her up and down the creek.
The coyote seen me a split second later than I seen him and lets just say he had a bad day.
I followed the hen woody up the creek as her little chicks caught up to her trying to get a close up pic with the iPhone. She cut up the bank one way and the chicks split up into the fescue pasture to hide. I could not resist and followed to where I took the following picture. Them little boogers are quick on the feet but hide in nothing when you get up on them.
I looked down and had one of them run right into the side of my shoe and stop like he was going to hide under the arch of my boot. I picked him up, took the picture below and quickly released him with the others as they were all now running and swimming to catch back up to mom..
