I went calling tonight and close to last light I hear a single coyote start doing some locator howls. I respond with a few of my own, expecting it to use the trees as cover and eventually pop out right in front of me.
Only a few minutes go by and I don't hear or see anything. So I let another call go out, and pretty soon I get a response of short howls and barks, this time pretty close directly to my right, and downwind.
I figured it probably winded me (I didn't expect it to use the open grassy field to circle), but what I don't understand is that it just continued to do the same short howls/barks. I managed to actually see it through the trees with my thermal, so I decided to reposition
upwind, and maybe it'll come in to some more calling, or if I can get a clear shot, I'd shoot it. I kept looking for it as I moved along the yellow line, and by the time I got to the end, the yote moved along the red
line and stayed in that position howling/barking until I decided to call it quits and go back to the truck (in the upper right corner off screen).
Before getting to my truck I decided to let out some challenge calls, fight calls, prey/pup distress to see if I could move it. And every time it would just shut up, listen to the sounds, and when I paused it continue to
howl/bark. At this point I head to my truck, look one last time through the thermal, and see the yote still just parked right there, out in the open of a grassy field.
I don't understand, if it winded me, why did it just not run off? There's no way it didn't know I was there by the time I got up and started trying to get different angles on it. So what was it doing staying out in the open
like that howling/barking for so long? Total time it was doing that is probably around 45 minutes.