Coyotes In The Night

I walked out into the back yard about 22:15 tonight, to a chaotic cacophony. I hear coyotes around once or twice a week, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard them this close. They were in the street and yards on the road just below ours, where it loops around and heads back down. So, maybe a hundred yards as the crows fly.

(As usual with cell phone video uploaded to YouTube, the sound quality sucks, so turn it up a bit…)

I walked over to the edge of the hill and could see four or five of them running around, but from the volume and yipping and yapping and howling, there might have been twice that. I don’t know what they were carrying on about (i.e., trying to kill and eat) but I’m glad it wasn’t a pet of mine.

Or a skunk.

Life in the urban jungle!