Wild & weird


RICHARD GILLARD/Acorn Newspapers

RICHARD GILLARD/Acorn Newspapers

CRITTERS IN THE COUNTY—Above, a three-legged coyote runs across a meadow at Paramount Ranch during a short break in the rain that fell on March 22. Left, Calabasas resident Ari Bialo photographed this great egret, seemingly out of its marshy element, on Easter Sunday at the Hilton Garden Inn. The bird is here because there’s something in the neighborhood that it covets: the gopher. Some say this example might be a great white heron with its large bill, but that bird is very rare outside of the state of Florida.