Carried gear (tripod, 12lb lens in case, camera) to view point at 6am.
Set up, began my vigil, unseen for a change.

I took this at 7:00:39, 22 minutes after sunrise, but the valley I'm shooting
in has a huge mountain about 3/4 miles to the east and it's in "shade" until
7:30am.

A coyote must have picked up my scent, because it was sniffing around, searching.
It passed below me in the creek bed and I shifted to get a shot. It bolted into
the brush. About 20 minutes later, scanning the brush w the lens, I spotted it
maintaining its own vigil. I took several shots, moved my arm, and with that
movement it must have gotten the info it needed because it started to move on.
I got one more shot (all shots, start to finish, taken in 1.5 minutes).

The camouflage it chose made AF difficult. I switched to LV w 5x view and LV's
contrast focus to get focus on the coyote's face and not the brush it chose to
hide in..