Today's post is rather alarming. Late afternoon yesterday this mangy coyote showed up near the deer water bucket just outside our kitchen garden window. There's been only one other time I saw a coyote (mind you I can hear them off in the distance at times) was when I was on a walk with friends 12 years ago and one ran across the road in front of us down in a little valley and disappeared into the thicket. He came from the 2 lots I own away from all my contiguous lots. We saw another group of walkers on the other side of the little valley and they took off running. I often wondered if they saw it again.
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