The light was too dim for me to see what the coyote had caught, but it looked like a fairly large “catch” — bigger than an everyday vole. Whatever it was, it was carried to the side of the path, where it was “crunched” again and again. Ahh, yes, I’d heard that same sound before: it was the same sound my own dog made when he chewed on a pine cone! This coyote had found yet another toy to play with. This pine cone was almost 5 inches long.






