Was pulling out this morning when a damn coyote runs across the blvd and through the parking lot. Too fast to snap a picture. I live in a condo complex a couple blocks from SF Bay.

There have recently been more and more reports of coyote sightings, even in neighborhood and business areas. And of course there's been sightings in San Francisco for quite a while, but seems like more and more down the Peninsula. Some pets have been taken.

We've seen 'em around here now and then. Usually trotting across the back of the back yard, usually late afternoon or early evening. Have caught them in the surveillance cams in the evening. But, one day, one came trotting up the side of the yard, very near the house, down the front yard, across the street, and into the developed, relatively dense sub across the street.

For reference: We're on an acre in what I'd call a semi-rural/semi-suburban area. Lots of undeveloped land, lots of large properties, interspersed by small-to-large densely-developed subs.

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I Just Saw a Coyote

I thought you went down to the southern border.

Daily sightings around my area along with bobcats. We're urban but with lots of wild green spaces and just out side of the "country" They've become pests as they are quick to snatch up chickens (more and more people are keeping chickens) and small pets. Bigger dogs like german shepherd kill them regularly.

A few years back my mother looked out the back door one morning and saw a coyote just sitting there on the porch. This is in northeastern Ohio, not far from the lake. A rural area more or less with houses about an acre apart and wooded back property.

4 years back I looked to my left driving down the road and saw a coyote trotting along in parallel.
He looked over at me, then back forward, never missing a step. It reminded me of this mouse on a road runner cartoon.
skip to the :24 second mark (close to the middle):
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Coyote That's a good one. We have Mountain Lions.

I believe I read in CA, the coyote population is thriving and supposedly hurting some of the populations of their prey. Probably why they are pretty common in suburbs now. I see them running around well populated places even in the day time nowadays. I want to get into coyote hunting, just gotta find a place that it’s legal.

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Coyote That's a good one. We have Mountain Lions.

We get those sometimes, too.

Common in the Yoop. I often hear the local pack making song dog music right behind my townhouse. I had one who would casually stroll along my front sidewalk and if confronted, he would just make a wide detour and trot on, as if he someplace to be.
They are hard on the deer population here.

I don't recall coyotes being in the Bay Area. Are you sure it wasn't a deer? And I'm just asking because of my ignorance. One time, driving home through the hills of Moraga, around a bend I saw what I thought were big dogs. As I came closer, they were deer. Now, I've seen the results of cars hitting deer near the Caldecott tunnel.

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I don't recall coyotes being in the Bay Area. Are you sure it wasn't a deer?

Coyotes have been an establised population in the Bay Area for quite a while. They've been frequently spotted in San Francisco itself for decades. So much so that they had to issue public directives not to feed them.

I studied Biology in school. I know how to id critters. For a split second I thought it was a dog, but as it passed a few yards from me, I knew what it was. It also moved like a coyote, very purposeful gait as mentioned in an above post.

It was one of these...



EDIT: Someone else ID'd the coyote less than a minute after my sighting, travelling in exactly the same direction I saw.

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I live in an average sizes city, but there are still some wooded areas that meet up with the neighborhood. Due to that, coyotes will come into the neighborhood late at night and early morning scrounging for food (which is sometimes pets). I have run across them while exercising in the am hours on occasion over the last 20 years. Normally they are small and quickly run off.

A few weeks ago I caught the glimpse of four animals running across the street ahead of me (it was around 4 am and dark). As I got close three small coyotes ran off toward the woods. They would stop occasionally and look at me, I would shine my flashlight and they would run some more.

I realize I saw 4 animals and only three ran off. I looked behind me on the road I had just passed and a rather large coyote was standing in the street looking at me. It was not scared and I would guess was over 60 pounds - it was the largest I have seen. I turned and walked toward it. It slowly walked away while looking at me, as if telling me "don't mess with me". Well, I had my Shillelagh with me as well as a .45 in my pocket so I was not scared of it either. That dog must be eating well to get so big. To be honest, I was hoping it would come toward me so I would have a reason to shoot it. I would have liked to take out that big coyote.

clubleaf206, your picture is WAY too big!

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It's mating season, so the coyotes are out and about more than usual right now.

Coyotes abound around here, and I live on the edge of a suburban area and the rural area. As a result, I hear coyotes howling fairly frequently and see them somewhat regularly too. Every once in a while, someone's small dog will get attacked in a backyard nearby.

There are some small wetland areas near here, but so far all I've ever seen are racoons and skunks (phew!). Nothing bigger till now.

A few weeks back there was a sighting just a few blocks from downtown San Mateo.

I live on a lake and on the other side is tons of farm acreage and woods. If the coyotes start chasing deer on the other side of the lake the deer will jump in the water and swim across to escape. Unfortunately a deer tried doing that a little too late in the year this year and when it jumped the water was frozen so the coyotes attacked. I woke up and saw blood all over the ice so I flew my drone over for a closer inspection.



They don’t leave much after one night.


Fatso came back for seconds during the next day. If you don’t see many coyotes you’ve probably never seen one this big before.

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Fatso came back for seconds during the next day. If you don’t see many coyotes you’ve probably never seen one this big before.

Most of the ones I see are lean. This one is eating good.

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Fatso came back for seconds during the next day. If you don’t see many coyotes you’ve probably never seen one this big before.

Fatso is adequately named! 'Yotes are pretty common around here and the population is healthy and expanding. There is a liberal hunting season for them. I've seen them up to 85 pounds. I've had lots of sightings while hunting, but also in my neighborhood. I think many of my neighbors would soil themselves if they knew we had 'yotes in the neighborhood.

A good friend one street over found some scat on her front walk and asked me if it was from a coyote or fox (we have both). Trying to keep a straight face I told her the only way to know for certain was to taste it; fox scat is more salty. For a moment she believed me.