Street Stories

18 Nov 2010 Leave a comment

by yipps:janetkessler in coyote behavior

This was told to me by the fellow who “plays pine cone” with his dog. He saw a coyote walking down his street. It is a small street, a long one-block long with a dead-end which hits a park. As in many neighborhoods, the houses actually abut each other, so there is no way “out” of the street until you hit either end. So, the coyote was walking stealthily down the street in broad daylight, when suddenly a group of people emerged from one of the houses. The coyote was quick to disappear from view, ducking under a truck which was parked there. It was a great hiding place. No one saw him — except this one man who told me the story. Coyotes are sometimes much more cat-like than dog-like.

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About My Site and Me: This website reflects my almost 20 years of intense, careful, and dedicated field-work — empirical observations — all photo-documented without interfering or changing coyotes’ behaviors. Be welcome here, enjoy, and learn! I am a self-taught naturalist and independent coyote researcher.

Coyotes reappeared in San Francisco in 2002 after many years of absence, and people are still in the dark about them. This site is to help bring light to their behavior and offer simple guidelines for easy coexistence.

My information comes from my own first-hand observations of our very own coyotes here in San Francisco. What I’m presenting to you is the reality of their everyday individual lives. They have not been studied or observed so thoroughly by anyone else. Mine is not generic information, nor second-hand.

Note that none of the coyotes I document and photograph is “anonymous” to me: I know (or knew) each one of them, and can tell you about their personalities, histories, and their family situations. There have been over 100 of them, distributed among over twenty families, all in San Francisco. Images and true stories have the power to raise awareness and change perspective.

Contact: Janet@coyoteyipps.com

© All information and photos in my postings come from my own original and first-hand documentation work which I am happy to share, with permission and with properly displayed credit: ©janetkessler/coyoteyipps.com.

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