Looking for lunch?
I was in my office about noon loading my GPSr with geocache waypoints when I heard Shirley’s panic-stricken scream quickly followed by a shrill, “There’s a coyote!”
Brandy (~28 pounds) was in the back yard and came immediately when called. Brandy apparently never saw the coyote. The coyote had disappeared behind shrubbery, and perhaps over the back fence, by the time I got to the patio door.
We went outside to look for the coyote but never saw it again. The coyote had scaled a 5-foot fence between our neighbor and us. It’s not clear whether the coyote was looking for Brandy or had been trying to avoid our neighbor when he went into his back yard. It has been unusual to see coyotes on our street during the day.
We had seen the same (or similar) coyote late afternoon about a week ago in “Coyoteville”. This one was brownish, unlike all the others that we have seen that were grayish.