Photo of one on New Haven Street.
Over in Jamaica Plain, Rhea Becker recounts an encounter between a coyote, her and her dog.
Photo of one on New Haven Street.
Over in Jamaica Plain, Rhea Becker recounts an encounter between a coyote, her and her dog.
Kids playing on the playground of the Kilmer School after school today report seeing a coyote on the other side of the fence that separates the school grounds from Ansonia Road. No sighting of a roadrunner, however.
Earlier:
Coyotes strike fear in West Roxbury; will somebody do something before some yutz pulls out a gun?
Fearless Carl Stevens of WBZ radio hounds a baby coyote on Baker Street in West Roxbury:
Also see: Coyotes continue to plague West Roxbury neighborhood:
Police were scouring a West Roxbury neighborhood Wednesday morning after 2 coyotes were seen near an elementary school. ...
Will have to ask Junior Reporter Kidlet today - that's her school. There probably hasn't been this much excitement there since the Dead Robotic Goose scare back in aught-five.
Earlier:
Deer in Rozzie Square.
Coyotes in the Arboretum.
Did the coyotes in the Arboretum eat a deer in Stony Brook Reservation?
The coyotes of Newton have tasted blood (pretty much a short saunter from Newton down to Baker Street).
Mark O'Neill of Roslindale took this photo of a sign at the Arboretum today warning of coyote spottings in the Arboretum and along the Arborway and urging anybody who sees one (especially if it has an Acme rocket on its back) to call Boston animal control or state environmental police.
Earlier:
Coyote in Mattapan
Coyote in Arlington
Coyotes in Brookline.
There's less chance the dog will be carried off by a coyote. Police report that's what happened early this morning to a terrier running off leash in woods off River Street in Mattapan:
... The coyote and the terrier were not located.
Marc spots a coyote on Rte. 60:
... The nasty-looking animal just looked at me, then continued to head toward Arlington Center.
I guess this should be a warning to Arlington residents to keep their cats inside, at least for the next few days!
Hmm, wonder if it could be Alyssa's man-eating Alewife coyote.
Alyssa Boehm, who knows coyotes from her childhood in Indiana, reports she saw one while driving with husband to the Alewife T stop yesterday:
... Deeps: And now I'm going to drop you off just a few hundred feet from the coyote to walk to the station?
Me: Of course!
Deeps: Can you out run a coyote? ...
Michael Burstein relays the news that coyotes moving into town are taking care of those terror turkeys clawing at the backs of shell-shocked Chestnut Hill residents. But with coyote Thanksgiving over and the beasts turning their slavering, beady eyes on poodles, he wonders, what eats coyotes? And when do we have the first Brookline bear sighting?