Coyote in the Hood

"COYOTE!", exclaimed Gail, while looking out across our back yard today. It was on the move, so I grabbed my camera and tried to follow. A neighbour up the street had spotted it too and offered me a ride.

We tracked the female coyote as it weaved its way toward Coronation Park on the shores of Lake Ontario. It stopped when it saw squirrels and geese but they would take off at the sight of this new predator.

Apparently, the coyotes that are living in our neighbourhoods may be coywolves, coyote/wolf hybrids. The CBC's Nature of Things recently aired an excellent documentary about them.