Apr 06
Getting Outside Saturday: Coyote!
categories: Cocktail Hour
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This is the coyote that washed up, likely drowned, below the bluff near our house in East Dennis in 2000. I pulled it up behind a rock, where it was mostly hidden, and over the next months watched it revert to bones. Its skull now sits atop my bookcase at my school office in N.C.
Gorgeous animal. Maybe poisoned? I live on the marsh on the north shore of the Cape and love having them around us (or vice versa). Wish everyone felt the same. Fantastic book about the plight of coyotes on the Cape and elsewhere by local teacher and coyote guru/defender Dr. Jon Way: Suburban Howls.
Interesting position the coyote has found. I find myself lying just like that on a sunny day in spring when there’s nothing else to chase
Nothing like the smell of a rotting carcass in the summertime! Weren’t the dogs interested?
It was so rocky out there that there were not a lot of dogs. We didn’t own one, though we dogsat for a standard poodle.
You told me that was the skull of a student!
Good one!