Thanks guys, I do like pics. Especially live pics if they explain or show something.
No drainage ditches here borkon, just regular grassy or brushy creeks. I've killed a couple in the creeks as well. Once they are frozen over & not drifted heavily. They'll use them frequently getting from point A to point B.
Couple of Winters ago I stopped at a farm house to obtain permission. Farmer invited me in out of the cold to talk. We walked into his livingroom, which he pointed out a large window showing me his land boundries.
A creek lay down in an open foothill valley 1/4 mile away. As we were looking & discussing, out popped a coyote walking the high drift on the creek.
I said, look a coyote. He turned & seen it. Then he said what are you going to do? I said kill it, watch me.
I ran outside loaded my rifle then went prone by his house. I put the cross hairs on the front of it's chest & knocked him off the drift. Broke his leading shoulder then couldn't re-connect as the coyote was hauling mail out farther yet. I tracked that coyote 3/8 mile. He ran into a den hole as he bleed like a stuck hog.
Farmer told me after I got back to the house. That was the neatest thing he ever seen hitting that coyote that far out.
I agree Like you said, borkon. They like drainage ditches & or creeks. They are an excellent place to seek shelter from the wind.