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!
08 May 2018 9 Comments
by yipps:janetkessler in coyote behavior Tags: coyote and self, coyote reflection
The reflection in the water caught her eye. She tried to make contact with it, but how can you make contact with a contradiction? Water or coyote? Did her reflecting go further . . . ? “Is it me, my reflection: singular, or is there another: you, plural?” The thought fizzled with the effort, and she decided to look no more, but to move on to her more concrete world.
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!)
Coyote Yipps 
May 08, 2018 @ 13:04:14
Lovely, lovely photos
May 08, 2018 @ 16:45:53
This is lovely!
May 08, 2018 @ 18:17:59
Smart girl to wonder; smarter girl to walk away!
May 08, 2018 @ 18:18:36
Oh WOW!!!! – What a beautiful reflection (yours and hers).
May 08, 2018 @ 20:12:59
Thank you Bobbie, Alice, Margaret and Cindie! :)) Make sure to let all and sundry know just how cool these critters are!
May 08, 2018 @ 21:59:34
Oh, just beautiful!
May 09, 2018 @ 12:41:02
Absolutely love these pictures. Thank you, thank you. We have a coyote trail through the back of our yard and I get to see them now and then. We also spend a lot of time planting more cover for them. It gives me a chance to talk to everyone I can find about how amazing these beings are.
May 10, 2018 @ 00:27:17
What a lovely sequence!
May 10, 2018 @ 09:16:58
Beautiful thought!