SmallCaliberCentral

Has anyone ever seen a blonde colored coyote? I saw one yesterday. It was about 50 yrds. off the road. When I stopped it immediately started running but, only ran another 50 yrs. or so then turned broadside and watched me a few minutes before running into the brush. It looked to be blonde all over. It was in a posted field and I didn't have a gun with me anyway, or a camera. First time I've ever seen anything but a normal colored coyote. Also, it was 2:30 in the afternoon, thought that was kinda odd too.

I seen a pair that were exactly as you described, kind of blonde colored, much lighter than anything I have seen before. I had a good look at them from my scope as I was shooting gophers at the time and I seen them in the trees past where I was looking for targets. They were about 500-600 yards away but in line with my bench so I watched them for a while.

This was in southern Alberta near the Crowsnest Pass/Old Man River area.

Yup, one time out deer hunting I jumped up a coyote that was about the color of a golden retriever. Didn't shoot it because I didn't want to scare the deer out of the drainage.

Some we have around here are more brown, but most are a nice silvery color with some darker & lighter fur too. This one is typical here in central Washington:

Have one around my house that is a beautiful dark brown like the color of your wood stock Guy M, never seen that color before, but most of them are colored like the one in your pic.

I'll be darned. Have never seen a dark brown coyote. Interesting.

As I recall, most that I saw in Southern California were scruffy little gray things, not much color to them. Was surprised by the size and color of the bigger coyotes I found here in Washington.

Here's the biggest one I ever shot, a full 60" from nose to tail. Turned him into a rug:

Here are a few I've taken.










Here's one I shot out my back door that's the darkest one I've ever taken around here.








Here's a typical colored coyote around here.






Sometimes they look like this when you hit them right between the eyes with a 39 S.B.K.

The one I saw was solid yellow, kinda the color of a yellow lab. No other color on him that I coud see from 50 yds. I'd sure like to make a rug outta him.