You were always with me, like a light from inside

[sovay]

A coyote crossed my path as I came home tonight from a ferocious amount of pre-Hanukkah shopping and cleaning with my parents. I don't know that I had ever seen one suburban-wild before. It had a low-slung back, a dark-tipped brush of a tail, its neat-trotting feet like a cat's in the headlights. It disappeared down a side street.

I think the solstice coyote is a good omen. A trickster at the door of the year. We make our own light, but it never hurts to have someone on your side who can steal it.

Comments

[sholio]

How lovely! That does seem like a good sign. I like coyotes - they were common where I grew up, but are much less so here, and seeing one in semi-urban areas seems like a rare thing indeed.

[katherine]

Lovely.

[cmcmck]

A freylichen Chanukah to you and yours! :o)

[choco_frosh]

And it might eat some of the damn’ bunnies!

[asakiyume]

That is wonderful! I saw a solstice bald eagle, which was posing most magnificently at the top of a tree--but now i have coyote envy; I would like to have seen a solstice coyote!

We make our own light, but it never hurts to have someone on your side who can steal it. --beautiful.

[umadoshi]

We make our own light, but it never hurts to have someone on your side who can steal it.

Words to live by.

[sovay]

Words to live by.

Feel free to pass them on.

[sovay]

And it might eat some of the damn’ bunnies!

That would also be cool!

[sovay]

Lovely.

It made me very happy to see.

[sovay]

I like coyotes - they were common where I grew up, but are much less so here, and seeing one in semi-urban areas seems like a rare thing indeed.

I think they have become more common in the Boston area due to changing ranges, but I still can't remember the last time I saw one in person. I was glad.

[sovay]

A freylichen Chanukah to you and yours!

Likewise!

[sovay]

I saw a solstice bald eagle, which was posing most magnificently at the top of a tree--but now i have coyote envy; I would like to have seen a solstice coyote!

Next year! I like your solstice eagle, though. It also seems like hopeful iconography.

--beautiful.

Thank you. Share as you like!

[pameladean]

Oh, how perfect! And what a perfect phrase: "A trickster at the door of the year."

We have coyotes galore in my city, but the only sign I've ever seen of one in our yard, which is a bit far from lakes, the major creek, and other bits of wildness, was the time the neighbor cat killed but did not eat four young rabbits, I buried them, and a more efficiency-minded creature dug them up and ate them for me. Raccoons might have been a possibility, but the scat said otherwise.

P.

Not just Lexington

[lauradi7dw]

https://www.westsiderag.com/2019/12/22/coyote-spotted-again-in-the-same-section-of-central-park-but-this-time-it-came-closer

[sovay]

Oh, how perfect! And what a perfect phrase: "A trickster at the door of the year."

Thank you!

I buried them, and a more efficiency-minded creature dug them up and ate them for me. Raccoons might have been a possibility, but the scat said otherwise.

You put them all in a convenient place!

[sovay]

Not just Lexington

I saw last night's in Arlington-Somerville, but I believe it.

[sami]

I have never seen a coyote in real life. This post made me realise I wasn't entirely sure what they look like when not in Wile E. form.

The pictures suggest they look like big foxes and are really cute.

Congratulations on your positive omen!

[ethelmay]

Coyotes are a recent addition to Seattle. I have never seen one, but lots of my neighbors have. Even raccoons and possums I never saw here until I was grown up, and when I was a small child, though I now find it difficult to believe, crows seldom came into the city.

[brigdh]

Wow, how lovely!

[sovay]

The pictures suggest they look like big foxes and are really cute.

I believe this to be essentially true. They have wonderful faces.

Congratulations on your positive omen!

Thank you!

[sovay]

Even raccoons and possums I never saw here until I was grown up, and when I was a small child, though I now find it difficult to believe, crows seldom came into the city.

What did you have before you had crows?

[sovay]

Wow, how lovely!

I was so glad to see it.

[ethelmay]

I don't know of anything quite in that niche. Lots of pigeons and sparrows and so on. All the same ones we have now, though I am more bird minded now (and have vision correction, which as a young child I did not - no one knew I needed glasses until I was almost ten, and I am pretty sure I had congenital myopia). So I see more Anna's hummingbirds now, for instance, but I think we had them fifty (gulp - is it really fifty?!) years ago.

[alexxkay]

Two nights ago, Kestrell thinks she heard a coyote. Last night, I was awoken by an unfamiliar howl. Also, I've started reading her Gunnerkrigg Court, and we just got to the introduction of their version of Coyote. Solstice coyote is real!

[sovay]

Solstice coyote is real!

Yay!