coyotes
Boston Police report workers from the Franklin Park Zoo had to use a tranquilizer gun to subdue a coyote hit by a car on Howard Avenue this morning: Read more
Eric Mauro reports:
I was out walking my dog around 1:30 a.m. and we saw a coyote trotting through Oak Square last night... garbage night.... It went in front of the liquor store and then across the square, and then over to the library and up Bigelow.
Mike Ball needs to contact the Acme Co. about one of its customers.
I am loving the headline on Beth Daley's post about the woman who found herself - and her four Labrador retrievers - surrounded by a pack of rocket-powered coyotes up north the other day:
Coyotes may have surrounded woman for food.
Jimbo points us to this photo by George Cumming of what might be the dead Logan coyote - who seemed to be lactating a week ago, which means there are now some orphan coyote babies in Belle Isle Marsh.
Logan Airport had to briefly shut two runways today as crews tried to corral a particularly wily coyote, the Globe reports.
Shane Curcuru's reaction to spotting a coyote on a dock next to the Museum of Science in Cambridge? Yikes!
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The Bulletin reports a growing number of coyote sightings - including at least one of a pack apparently feasting on a small deer in somebody's back yard. No reports of exploded rockets or 16-ton weights at the bottom of the hill, however.
I saw the coyote in Aboretum in March 2008. His name is Arnold. The Aboretum is obviously named after Arnold the coyote. It took me one year to find Arnold so do not expect to see him every day. I have the only PHOTO of Arnold! I will someday hang the photo of Arnold up on the gate to Peter's Hill next to the sign warning people to beware of Arnold. Almost NOBODY goes where Arnold was seen and I keep that place a secret where he probably hunts rabbits. A red fox lives there also. Arnold is not anywhere near where the people go. Arnold hunts at dusk. Read more
ParkwayBoston posts this photo of some slavering, fanged beast crossing Weld Street by the Arboretum last weekend and wonders if it's a coyote (no stranger to these parts) or a chicken-ripping wolf:
I am not sure what it is but it is definitely not a dog.
I dunno, looks like a rare albino bear cub to me.
Jorge files some fall photos from Belle Isle Marsh.
Bill Phillips files this report via e-mail from the wilds of Montana Central Square:
For the last three nights, I have heard the most outlandish noise at some point - it didn't last very long, and I didn't note the time (i think I was - uncharacteristically - in bed each time - pretty drowsy in any case).
The first time I thought it was some very strange sort of dog someone might have been walking very early in the morning.
The second time I thought pretty much the same.
Last night, it was louder and closer, and much more like a series of high-pitched howls, more or less in groups of two (howl ... howl ... longish pause ... repeat), and at first I thought of some sort of large bird - a huge owl? - but it was similar enough to the other nights that I also thought "dog", but strange, which led me to think "coyote".
I looked up coyote howls on the web just now, and am virtually certain that was what it was (a quite weird sound if you care to look it up, btw).
It was quite nearby, could even have been in the side yard of our apartment building.
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Jorge ran across these coyote pups in Belle Isle Marsh in East Boston today.
Jim Walker photographs a coyote getting ready for a DHL drop off in Newton this morning.
Coyote spotted down by Powder House Park.
The Somerville News reports:
The prairie wolf eluded police and animal control officers as he ran through the Max Pak site, Highland Road and Boston Avenue.
Jef Taylor, the Urban Pantheist, considers the case of the North End coyote:
... They are going to release it "to the wild" whatever that means. A Coyote found that far into Boston didn't wander there from the Worcester Hills. This guy was a local, and as far as he was concerned, he was in the wild. Nonetheless, the belief that the city is NOT wildlife habitat must be protected at costs, no matter that the wildlife continues to view it as such. He'll be let go someplace woodsy, wondering just what happened. ...
Taken alive on North Washington Street near the Charlestown bridge yesterday.
The fresh snow provided plenty of evidence of plenty of coyotes in Belle Isle Marsh, Jorge reports.
Slavering, blood-fanged coyote beast at Mt. Auburn Cemetery looking for a midday snack. Well, a cool photo of a coyote at Mt. Auburn Cemetery, at any rate.
Oh, look: Now tourists are taking pictures of our rats.
Speaking of rats, you know what eats them? Cats and coyotes! And it seems we have tons of both these days, although urban-coyote researchers say the canines sometimes eat the felines:
... "We've found all kinds of stuff in their scat - cats, seals [on Cape Cod], fruit, food wrappers, you name it." Strauss suggests coyotes' most important competitors in urban areas may be feral cats and that these predators coexist by foraging at different times of day. ...
Ed. squeamish note: A few days ago, somebody posted a photo of a dead rat in Somerville with a 2x4 through it. Sorry, I just can't bring myself to link to that. Blecch!
Hide the poodles: Phil Temples reports there's a pack of coyotes living on some old arsenal land off Greenough Boulevard.
That would be the arsenal land where the army used to burn off depleted uranium, he writes. No word if the coyotes are nine feet tall or can shoot laser beams out of their eyes, however.
Photo of one on New Haven Street.
Over in Jamaica Plain, Rhea Becker recounts an encounter between a coyote, her and her dog.
Kids playing on the playground of the Kilmer School after school today report seeing a coyote on the other side of the fence that separates the school grounds from Ansonia Road. No sighting of a roadrunner, however.
Earlier:
Coyotes strike fear in West Roxbury; will somebody do something before some yutz pulls out a gun?
Fearless Carl Stevens of WBZ radio hounds a baby coyote on Baker Street in West Roxbury:
Also see: Coyotes continue to plague West Roxbury neighborhood:
Police were scouring a West Roxbury neighborhood Wednesday morning after 2 coyotes were seen near an elementary school. ...
Will have to ask Junior Reporter Kidlet today - that's her school. There probably hasn't been this much excitement there since the Dead Robotic Goose scare back in aught-five.
Earlier:
Deer in Rozzie Square.
Coyotes in the Arboretum.
Did the coyotes in the Arboretum eat a deer in Stony Brook Reservation?
The coyotes of Newton have tasted blood (pretty much a short saunter from Newton down to Baker Street).
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