Penny, that coyote was probably thinking the exact same thing that you were. Only he calls it his breakfast.

LOL! you are probably right on...out looking for breakfast!

Penny

I saw one last week, up in Lake Placid. Just darted across the road!

Last year while inside looking out at about 5:20 a.m. I saw one trot very stiff legged down my street which quickly caught my eye. Because of his shaggy coat, thin legs, and stiff front legs, I knew it was not a dog but a coyote. However, I wondered why in my neck of the woods? I'm very urban at Hopkins/Maple in Amherst, NY near the Millard Fillmore Hospital with just one house after another. Than I thought we do live about 1/2 mile away from a small swamp/nature preserve area. I truly was thrilled to see him and am still amazed that such nature in this heavily occupied area! Must be all we humans who keep cutting away at the local wooded areas for more monster sized homes that is causing the displacement.

GINNY B.

Ginny,
I am right off Niagara Falls Blvd so our location is just about as busy as yours. We also have a natural wetland about a mile away and some woods here and there but it really caught me off guard but to tell you the truth I enjoyed seeing it. After doing quite a bit of reading, it was probably a femaie with new babies to feed.

Penny

That's amazing that you both have seen them. Now if they would just visit my neighborhood, lots of evil rabbits are over here.
Remy

Remy this may be why I don't see many rabbits anymore out this way. Even the squirrel population seems to be down this year.

Penny

My mother and I take alot of trip to Akwesasne Casino in Malone, New York from Lake Placid. It seems that everytime we go past Barnum Pond, by Paul Smith's College, we see wildlife. We have seen 3 coyotes, a snoeshoe rabbit, fox, and alot of whitetail deer. I took some great photos of a doe that stood about 4 feet away from the car, letting me take her picture, while other deer were just walking down the middle of the road. The last trip we took, I had given up on any good photos, shut off my camera, when, a coyote ran across the street in front of our car. I missed a great shot. Maybe next time. By the way, I'm still waiting to see a moose.

We have lots of them in West Seneca...have seen them here and there...from what our Animal Control Officers have told me they move around a lot...but they have had to go in and destroy some dens...think with all of our development we are just moving them and others out of their habitat.

Coyotes are adaptive learners. They adjust to their surroundings. I lived in AZ for awhile and saw plenty of them all over. Moved to IL saw a few now and again and then moved back to NYS and was very surprised to see them here.
Our area is peppered with black bear. It's almost more likely you will see a black bear roaming the neighborhoods as a coyote.
Watch your roadkill. We normally have alot of it. Fast trucks and wildlife don't mix well. Lately the amount of carcasses you see along the roadside is almost nonexsistant except for the larger deer. Usually this means the garbage collectors of the wildlife group, the coyotes have been busy at work. They leave nothing along the road way. A easy meal for them is preferred to going after someones ca. dog or chickens.

My mom saw one in the village of lancaster NY in her backyard. She found a duck head in her yard later (ew)