Coyote sighting
Feb. 21st, 2005 05:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altivoLast night on the road from Elgin to West Dundee, where it passes through a forest preserve, we saw a coyote. I think it's the first time I've ever seen one outside a zoo that wasn't dead.
It was dark and misty. He/she was scavenging alongside the road, and my headlights picked out the form, the ears, the fact that it was not a dog quite clearly. I've been told many times that coyotes are becoming more common in our area despite increasing human population, and apparently this is true. They adapt well under pressure.
No sign of them on our farm, our sheep have not been bothered. But several times this last fall and winter I have seen deer carcasses along the roads, invariably picked clean to the bones. The deer have undoubtedly been hit and killed or at least seriously injured by vehicles, and the coyotes are cleaning up the remains.
It was dark and misty. He/she was scavenging alongside the road, and my headlights picked out the form, the ears, the fact that it was not a dog quite clearly. I've been told many times that coyotes are becoming more common in our area despite increasing human population, and apparently this is true. They adapt well under pressure.
No sign of them on our farm, our sheep have not been bothered. But several times this last fall and winter I have seen deer carcasses along the roads, invariably picked clean to the bones. The deer have undoubtedly been hit and killed or at least seriously injured by vehicles, and the coyotes are cleaning up the remains.
