No I do not. I haven't seen a coyote in years and the last one that I did see, which was looking for shade alongside Highland Creek in Scarborough, was scrawny and malnourished, looking like it was just ready to drop dead. Here in Pickering I do hear them at night, particularly when the nearby freight train blows its horn. That railway horn sets off a chorus of "Give me that two-timing raccoon" or some such nocturnal ditty. It lasts only a few minutes and then all is quiet again. Apparently there were two coyote following me at Petticoat Creek Park. I didn't see them because they were incognito, but the guy in the Ministry of the Environment truck parked at the entrance to the park saw me being tailed, or two-tailed, and offered his observation when I left. I was oblivious to the whole thing, as I am with most things. Frankly, (his name was Frank) I think he was having me on. I asked him if he was there when a squadron of Ivory-billed woodpecker flew over the park, so low and in such numbers that it temporarily blocked out the sun and he said it was a sight to behold. So, I think Frank has a healthy imagination. Coyote, dog, squirrel ... to Frank they're mostly indistinguishable, but you never know, maybe it was true. Coyote are more interested in people who are walking small dogs ... yum!
