Grosse Pointe Coyotes

[Hotspur]

A good friend invited me to play golf at Lochmoor Country Club in Grosse Pointe last week. This is a yearly invitation that I never turn down and we had perfect weather.

On the first tee I asked if there was still a resident coyote on the course. Yes, my friend said and there are puppies this year. He knows that I’m a fox hunter and that my interest is keen.

Not 20 minutes later an ambulance came down the road on the north side of the golf course with the siren blaring. Not 15 yards away from us in a very small patch of brush an adult and several young coyotes began to speak and did their best to out howl the ambulance. They maintained good voice until after the ambulance passed and then fell silent. I was elated, and the rest of our group was astonished.

Keep in mind that Grosse Pointe is a suburb just outside the city limits of Detroit and more than 20 miles inside the metropolitan area border. Have any of you had close incounters with coyotes deep inside a major city?

[iechris]

My friend lives in suburban Atlanta (just a few miles north of I-285 and only a few miles off I-85), in a mixed residential and commercial area. Her property backs up to a small driving range and she gets coyotes at her back fence line and even in her front yard. They love to come visit around 1 AM and set off all the dogs in her house, though I’ve seen them at her back fence in broad daylight.

[Chall]

NYC had a coyote in the northern most part of Manhattan. There is a small river dividing Manhattan and the Bronx (home to the Bronx zoo and Botanical garden, i.e. lots of woods). I expect it crossed that. In Westchester suburbs one or two coyotes have been spotted in the southern end of it (near the Bronx as well). And after decades of living here I saw a FOX THIS WEEK. Never ever heard of one in these suburbs. It was unmistakably a fox though. We now have rabbits too. This I attribute to the very wet summer we have had and to the dog leash laws finally becoming an ingrained habit.
I feel so blessed to see nature take a foothold and regenerate.

[Ravencrest_Camp]

Coyotes are not uncommon in the Toronto area, with its many ravines.

They come into the city by way of the hydro corridors. The powerlines are like highways for them. Lots of food, and no predators.

[Risk-Averse_Rider]

The first barn we boarded at here in Phoenix was smack in the middle of a bunch of subdivisions. We had coyotes on the cross country course all the time. They would lounge around on the berms and only reluctantly move off if we tried to chase them on horseback. And they kept looking over their shoulders to make sure we were still following - if not, they’d go back to snoozing.

[Beverley]

Here in the 'burbs of Salt Lake City, yes, coyotes, fox, cougars now and then.

And every winter there are always a few meese that manage to get lost in downtown Salt Lake City and have to be darted and taken back up to the foothills.

[Ravencrest_Camp]

@Beverley;4289753

cougars now and then.

I only find cougars in certain bars around here. :D:lol::lol::lol:

[wateryglen]

yowza!

Here in my town, there are a LOT of foxes at the local pubs…

As a cougar; I resemble that remark!!! I thought we are always prowling at hunt meets.