Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 17:33:35 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "George M. Jett" Subject: Re: Coyotes in Maryland MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Folks Doing a birdathon three years ago in southern Charles County, Eric Gofreed and I encountered a Coyote next to the road on Rt. 224 near the Thorne Gut. Shocked us. The mammal bolted before I could reach the camera in the back seat. They are likely wider spread then we are lead to believe. Good Coyoting. George ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ed Boyd" To: Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 11:03 AM Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Coyotes in Maryland > Last summer (July) while were in town visiting from Phoenix, AZ we were > staying with my wife's aunt in Woodlawn, MD(we are now permanently back in > the state). Her residence is on the west side of I-695 just south of the > ramp from the merge of eastbound I-70. One morning I awoke to a mob of > crows, jays and others raising hell with something in the tall grass along > the woodland at the bottom of her yard. After a few minutes I saw the ears > of an animal sticking up above the grasses and at first assumed that it was > a fox. Then the beast stood up and walked a few feet before laying down on a > knoll where it could be observed quite clearly. To my surprise it was a > coyote and not a fox. Although the critter had a bad case of mange, it was > clearly a coyote and not a fox. 3 1/2 years in Phoenix gave me a good > opportunity to observe and learn about coyotes and this was certainly one. > It's head was too square and the shape of the ears were wrong for a fox. In > addition, the animal was just a bit too large in structure. > > I have read for about 15 years that coyotes were being found in Maryland and > most other states in the northeast, but this has been my only encounter with > one east of the Rockies. > > Ed Boyd > Owings Mills, MD > edboyd59@comcast.net > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Saunders_N" > To: > Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 7:59 AM > Subject: [MDOSPREY] Coyotes in Maryland > > > > About four years ago Fran and I were sitting at the kitchen table (in > > Eastern Montgomery County) watching our feeders when a coyote came running > > down the fire road behind our house. We both thought we were > hallucinating > > but discussions with Rob Gibbs (MNCPPC) at the time turned up the fact > that > > coyotes were known to be breeding in the Western and Northern parts of > > Montgomery County. We've never seen one in our yard since but the > following > > article from the 17 April Washington Post puts us all on notice that we > have > > another mammal to share our state, and perhaps our yards, with! > > > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2194-2002Apr17.html > > > > ===================================== > > Norman C. Saunders > > Colesville, Montgomery County, MD > > marshhawk@att.net > > > > ======================================================================= > > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > > ======================================================================= > > > > ======================================================================= > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > ======================================================================= ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================