Coyotes and spring

Last night at just about this time, it was dusk, and I looked out the kitchen window which looks down beyond the pond where the woods meets the lawn, and see two coyotes.  One of them went into the woods to the right, into the pines.  The other sat down beyond a small woodpile of useless hemlock and waited for the other one it seemed.  I think that was correct because finally the other one came out of the pines and headed down the hill away from his companion and me.

By that time, I was wondering if there was any communication between them.  I thought that because one night a few years back, I listened as two coyotes signaled each other.  First they were very far away, and they would answer each other from opposite sides of the little canyon beyond my house.  I listened to them get closer and closer until there was silence again.  I figured they found each other.  It was so beautiful.

So I opened the window to hear something like that.  But there was silence.  As I closed the window, the sitting and waiting pup heard me.  And he or she took off like lightening!  In the opposite direction from the companion.

I sort of figured, afterwards, that it was a mother and child.  The mother sat by the logs waiting for the other to do a bit of wandering on its own.  Perhaps the "child" was hunting in there.  The "mother's" attention appeared to be so very watchful.

Seeing and hearing wildlife is such fun.