Hey, there! Log in / Register

Coyotes

By adamg - 3/27/24 - 9:20 am

The Boston Sun captures the moment when a Boston animal-control officer captured a coyote on Anderson Street for relocation to someplace a bit less urban; reports the sight of the beast startled even grizzled Beacon Hill residents who had grown used to other forms of wildlife, such as turkeys and owls.

By adamg - 1/28/24 - 1:54 pm

Newhouse Wildlife Rescue recounts how a Somerville police officer and a pair of animal rescuers teamed up to save a coyote with a broken leg in a ditch near the Mystic that ran into the river when they approached:

Thankfully, it was only about two feet deep. The river was cold enough that we were worried about the coyote getting hypothermia. We got him back to the rescue, as soon as possible, and warmed him up. Jonny was also drenched but he didn’t complain.

By adamg - 1/8/24 - 3:33 pm

A scared citizen files a 311 complaint about the northbond stretch of Centre Street that is really the parkway where houses sit in front of the Arboretum just before the Giant Rotary of Doom in Jamaica Plain: Read more.

By adamg - 10/16/23 - 11:45 am

A concerned citizen files a 311 complaint about the situation at Bartlett Street and Lambert Avenue in Roxbury now that the coyotes that used to live there have moved on: Read more.

By adamg - 9/6/23 - 2:34 pm

Dave Wattles, MassWildlife's black-bear and furbearer biologist, will lead an online discussion on coyotes in Boston - how they got here, how they live and how the more bipedal among us can coexist with them, starting at 6:30 p.m. on Sept. 19. Free registration required.

By adamg - 5/23/23 - 9:13 am
Coyote in the outfield

Coyote in the outfield before it began its pursuit.

Sue O'Connell, yes, that Sue O'Connell, reports she was walking her dog at the Connolly ballfield at Marcella Park in Roxbury early this morning when she noticed what appeared to be a lost dog in the outfield. And then it began running at her and her pet and she realized that was no dog, it was a coyote. Read more.

By adamg - 1/18/23 - 11:10 pm

An alarmed citizen files a 311 report from suddenly dangerous Goff Street in Hyde Park, where coyotes have eaten two dogs and, he or she reports ominously, "reportedly tried to snatch a child at the bus stop." Read more.

By adamg - 1/12/23 - 9:59 pm
Back Bay coyote

At one point, he looked behind to see if Animal Control was gaining on him.

Liz Robson had a roadrunner's-eye view for a few hours today of a coyote running around Back Street along Storrow Drive for several hours today, successfully evading Boston Animal Control, which apparently didn't have any fresh paint with which to create a tunnel on the side of the building to stun him. Read more.

By adamg - 8/17/22 - 9:45 am

A distressed citizen files a 311 complaint about an ominous occurrence on Parker Hill Avenue along McLaughlin Playground on Mission Hill this morning: Read more.

By adamg - 3/15/22 - 11:58 am
Coyote at H Street

Owens408 spotted this coyote on the beach at H Street this morning - possibly the one that had been hanging out at Moakley Park.

By adamg - 2/24/22 - 9:50 am

Greg Hunt lives in one of the more urbanized parts of Brookline, up near Packards Corner, and so was a bit surprised to look out his rear window this morning to see a coyote:

Bolted across our yard, got stuck at the far fence and quickly left the way it came (hopping a 3’ fence).

By adamg - 1/31/22 - 9:26 pm

It's coyote mating season and they're out and about - like in the Arnold Arboretum at dusk: Read more.

By adamg - 12/29/21 - 10:00 pm

An alarmed South Boston citizen filed a 311 complaint this morning about the Moakley Park coyote's new and more aggressive behavior: Read more.

By adamg - 11/25/21 - 11:01 am
Coyote and goose in Moakley Park

The herd warily watched as the predator circled them in Moakey Park this morning. Bacon Doughnuts watched nature at work from afar.

By adamg - 11/18/21 - 1:17 pm
Coyote on Boston College campus

K spotted a rough looking coyote on the Commonwealth Avenue side of the Boston College campus today.

By adamg - 11/5/21 - 10:55 am
Coyote along Day Boulevard

BostonTimelapse was out for a run in Moakley Park this morning when he - and others - spotted a coyote obviously already sick of all the attention.

By adamg - 9/6/21 - 1:15 pm

Arlington Police report two children were attacked by a coyote yesterday afternoon in Arlington: A two-year-old girl on Epping Street was bitten in the back and then briefly dragged by a coyote, then ten minutes later, another two-year old girl on Summer Hill Circle, about a half mile away, was scratched by a coyote. Read more.

By adamg - 9/3/21 - 12:04 pm
Coyote up a hill in the Roslindale part of the Arboretum

Yesterday, roving UHub photographer Dan Peters spied this comfy coyote up a hill at the part of the Arnold Arboretum in Roslindale that's across Walter Street from the main part of the Arbs, where the solar panels are.

By adamg - 8/17/21 - 11:38 am

Watertown News reports the attack. which left another dog injured, happened in the area of Walnut Street on Friday night.

Subscribe to Coyotes