Originally written on: 26 Oct 2005
I was returning from my RWA meeting in Tempe last night, and was nearly up to the Bush Highway, when a coyote crossed my path. I've never seen one that close in the wild before. I swerved a bit to the left, and happily missed him. Fortunately, there was no other traffic on the road.
As I arrived in my little hamlet, I decided to check my mailbox. It was about 11:30 p.m., and when I walked back to my car, I was thrilled to hear an elk bugling on the hill facing the mailbox array. I'd heard them in Gordon Canyon, but not in my own neighborhood!
In Yellowstone last summer, my husband and I had a cyote run right in front of us across the street just as you described. I had never seen one close either. It was a big one, and we thought at first it was a wolf, but we decided from shape, etc. that it was a large cyote. We were also glad not to hit it.
ReplyDeleteTerry Deighton (ANWA)
Once I was driving near Flagstaff, AZ and saw a coyote standing on a large rock overlooking the six lane freeway, his eyes bugging out in disbelief. I laughed and laughed and have wondered for years what was going through that animal's mind when he came upon that scene.
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