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!
14 Jul 2013 3 Comments
by yipps:janetkessler in coexisting with coyotes, coyote behavior, family interactions, playing, pupping
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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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Jul 15, 2013 @ 03:36:15
OMG! They are adorable! And what a watchful, patient mom! This was great :)
Jul 15, 2013 @ 10:15:27
Inspired by the “New Kids on the Block” I browsed your blogs this morning. They are so wonderful! Beyond all the cute coyote pups, I love the photos of the beaver at work, the hummingbird attack and etc. You are such a great observer and photographer. Our beavers are only out during dark.
I don’t know why I haven’t signed up for an email alert before. Please keep me posted.
Meta
Jul 15, 2013 @ 15:03:35
Hi Meta —
Thank you for the great compliment!
You can take photos under poor lighting conditions: the beaver photos were taken at dusk with an ISO of 6400. You can increase the exposure and contrast once you’ve downloaded the images. Poor quality photos can look okay on the web.
One has to learn to observe, first, by disconnecting from our human world when out in nature. My youngest son taught me that if you sit in a field all morning with nothing to do, soon you start seeing things about the animal world that you never would have noticed. They have amazingly full lives. What is incredible to me is, in our modern world with so much knowledge and an ability to understand almost anything, people persist in not seeing animals for what they really are — beings with such similar needs and drives as our own. And when I/we point these similarities out, we are accused of “anthropomorphizing”. It’s not anthropomorphizing, it’s what is actually going on!
Janet