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I’m really taken with Courtney’s wildlife drawings. She captures the Great Horned owlet’s character so wonderfully here!
Thank you Courtney for another great sketch!
Information and stories about San Francisco coyotes: behavior & personality, coexistence & outreach, by Janet Kessler: Unveiling first-hand just how savvy, social, sentient and singular coyotes really are!
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About My Site and Me: This website reflects my 16 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!
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. 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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(A crash course in SF coyotes!)
(Another crash course in coyotes generally!)
Sep 27, 2011 @ 04:58:09
That’s pretty cool, I like that. I recently saw some GHO’s out in the desert, three big white puffy owlet’s and a darker, older male or female I am not sure which.
Coyote’s are starting to slowly make their presence known again out in our neighborhoods, yipping and howling and scat on the sidewalks and canyons.
Sep 27, 2011 @ 05:24:12
That’s a great sketch. The owlet has so much personality!
Sep 27, 2011 @ 22:00:03
We just returned from seeing a Picasso exhibit. Picasso’s goats are fabulous beyond belief, but his owl in that exhibit comes nowhere close to Courtney’s!!
Oct 05, 2011 @ 18:09:30
Great!