Golden Eagles Attacking Coyote
Golden Eagles Attacking Coyote.-About 3:00 p.m., November 21, 1953, while driving through the Colorado Antelope Refuge northeast of Fort Collins, Colorado, I noticed two dark objects on the brow of a hill. Through 7x35 binoculars the objects were seen to be two Golden Eagles perched approximately 30 feet apart on the ground. Just then a coyote stalked out of a stubble field toward one of the eagles. When the coyote was about 20 feet away, both eagles detected him. They launched from the slope and circled in pursuit of the coyote. While the eagles made short successive stoops, the coyote ran rapidly down the ridge and to the top of the next hill. Confused, he turned downhill into the valley, where he finally eluded the two eagles by diving into a sinkhole which was quite long and narrow, about 4x5~20 feet. The eagles made two or three more stoops over the sinkhole, but couldn’t reach the coyote. Thwarted, the eagles returned to their perches on the same knoll and the coyote remained hidden.-NORTON R. MINER, Fish and Wildlife Service, Fort Collins, Colorado, January 28, 1954.
