Coyote!

A big coyote was seen on the pond this week. Marc and Amy emailed about him. Probably a male if he were big. I missed him; he must have stayed north, in their end of the pond.

But Thursday morning I lifted the shades and saw coyote tracks in the snow.  They led from Smith Point in a gentle arc out into the pond, and then up into our yard, ending at the edge of a three-foot snow bank, just below my window.  From there he must have jumped down into our driveway — ploughed clean of snow — where he stole away without a trail.

Were those truly coyote tracks?  I can’t say for sure, but they looked very much like the tracks of a female coyote that visited the pond in January 2009.