Another what is it...variation

What is this coyote carrying? Sorry about the low quality of the pic but with these drastic temperature changes has the cam lens covers are all fogging up overnight. Plus it has been low fog the last 2 mornings also. This coyote is semi-regular after dark at this bowblind.

My first though was a coon but the more I look at it the more confusing it gets.

Almost looks like a bobcat.

It's his pillow he's going to bed

It's chunky so I'm going with badger.

Did your dog come when you called this morning? That's a mouth full for sure. He sure is carrying it high to be so big. Too fuzzy to tell. I notice there's no "property of STX Ranchman" on the pic.

He's carrying dinner.

Something amiss - looks too heavy to be carrying something so comfortably. A badger would be carrying the coyote.

Agreed. It’s too big an long not to be limp or bent in half. You messin with us Stx? Poor quality pics can really play tricks on eyes.

I'll go along with the coon guess as they are likely the most abundant prey that size.
Those dang coyotes are stronger than they look. I watched one grab a 50+lb. lamb and run off with it like it was rabbit.

Definitely a mouthful whatever it is!

I will say that this is a larger than average coyote judging by the others I have gotten on TC pics over the past few months now. I have my thoughts as to what it could be.

It is my pic. My dog weighs a whopping 15 lbs..so it could be but not likely since my dog is in the house with me right now.

Obviously it's a kid

Maybe a dried up road kill doe. Looks like 2 ears on right side of pic.

this is the logical

but, could that be a rabbit
small yote

Young coyote carrying Jackrabbit

I'm going with bobcat too.

I don't think he/she is carrying anything. I suspect that's a second coyote dancing in front of her/him. The one in front is blurry because of movement.

do you have any daytime pics from there?

The legs look short and stubby, so I am going with a fat coon or possibly a jackrabbit.

Giant Jack Rabbit ?

Small Kangaroo ?

Never seen a jackrabbit here on my place or seen one anywhere close to here.

I don't think the coyote is carrying anything. It just looks like 'something' in front of the coyote giving that appearance. Can't see the coyotes muzzle at all and it would be an extremely odd angle for a Yote to grab something by its side. A Coyotes muzzle/mouth just isn't built for that. They would more likely clamp down over the top and the object/thing would be 'hanging' from the mouth.

But that's just my thought.

I posted above that I have an idea what it is the coyote is carrying. You guys are not thinking about what this could be the coyote is carrying.

^^^This makes a lot of sense but STX is hinting differently. Sounds like hes got us again like the coyote has got something.

No clue.

This^^^^^bringing another small child across the southern border.....just one more reason why I hate them

Looks like a pig, but if it is, either part of the carcass we don't see is missing or that is one strong yote.

Jack Rabbit

Another song dog standing next to the visible yote

It's a stingray. Pretty sure I'm right here. Must have been wade fishing.

I knew I left my jacket somewhere.

Looks like another yote giving him the "go ahead".

He's carrying fleas......like the rest of'em.

Baby Black Panther?

I think it's another yote standing in front with it's tail tucked and head down.

Tend to agree its a second yote standing there and he isn't carrying anything. If it is carrying something I'll guess turkey or some other large bird. Only thing I can think of that is that bulky and light.

A turtle?

I vote for a second yote and a crappy pic.

me too and maybe the one on the right has something in its mouth and the one on the left wants a bite

Did Ox take this pic?

Like I said I have an idea what it is in the coyotes mouth. There are 3 things it could be...one is I did kill a turkey with my bow over the weekend. It was breasted out and the leg quarters removed but it was left about 1/2 mile in the direction the coyote was going to in this pic. It would have been eaten quickly since I cleaned it near a water trough about 4 days ago. I caught a coon in a trap and shot it, then dumped it Tuesday morning about 200 yards from where this coyote is walking in and the direction he would have been walking from where the coon was dumped.. So knowing how dry it is and as many hogs/coons/coyotes I have dumped in that location the odds of it being the coon skin and/bones is not likely 2 days later. The birds were on it that afternoon already. The third is what I am thinking it is...I shot a doe on Tuesday morning. Skinned and quartered her..then hauled the skin and 4 lower leg bones closer to where this coyote is heading from...less than 100 yards. I hauled the skin and legs off at about 4:30 that same day and saw the vultures/cara cara on the coon carcass. So I am sure this is the folded up skin off that doe...no head or legs were attached to it when I dumped it that evening. The head went with me to town and the processor. So the coyote must not have found it till that night of the pic. The shape and hair coat fits the deer skin. It also was folded up in a bag most of the day when I hauled it off later that evening. It would have laid on the ground in very tall grass and was folded up for over a day. The last doe I killed a week before took the coyotes 2 days to find the hide.

I’m still thinking stingray

What do you know?

Darnit TCM3, as soon as I saw Toddthar's post I got the jingle in my head. You beat me to it!

That's my guess as well.

I think OP doctored the photo.