Bustling with wildlife

Over the past week, we visited extraordinarily different landscapes, from the sandstone canyons of western Colorado, to the red rock vertical canyons of Moab, and finally to the snowy winterland of the western slope of the Continental Divide.

Here's a photo of K in Moab, next to a red rock wall with the moon rising over it.
I plan to write about those adventures in the coming days. However, first, I wanted to share the photos that I captured with my infrared wildlife camera (Bushnell Trophy) that I set up next to a boulder outcropping that overlooks a meadow. Over the years, I've noticed fresh carnivore scat in this spot regularly. I set up the camera a little more than a week ago. The photo below shows the spot the camera is focused on but no animals.

A bobcat visited this boulder on the second night that the camera was in place. I believed that it was fresh bobcat scat that I saw regularly, and my guess was confirmed. Notice that, with an IR camera, the nighttime photos are black and white. Moreover, despite the dim red light emitted by the camera, the cat's eyes shine brightly.Here's a zoomed in view of the cat.
The next morning, in the rosy hue of sunrise, a coyote couple visited the same spot.
They stayed long enough for a few photos, sniffing the ground carefully. I wonder if they smell the bobcat. My research has revealed that coyotes hunt and eat bobcats. However, that seems like a very tough meal for a coyote!
Below, one coyote departed but the sleepy one moved more slowly. He yawned before heading down to the meadow. Throughout our vacation, a pair of coyotes visited the area under our birdfeeding station nightly. I wonder if this pair is the same - I suspect so.
A few nights later, a tasty meal for either a bobcat or a coyote visited the same spot.
He headed directly for the hole at the bottom of the boulder. He's barely visible in the photo below as his head was already in the hole.
A slightly zoomed view shows that he did head for the hole. In the next photo taken 8 seconds later, he'd disappeared into the hole. This camera automatically takes three photos at 8 second intervals when triggered.
The rabbit didn't reappear so I suspect that he used an alternative escape hatch from this burrow.

All in all, the first week of having my IR camera in the field was a huge success! A bobcat, coyotes, a rabbit, and a squirrel (not shown) all visited this spot. I'm going to keep the camera there a bit longer to see who else shows up!