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n: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sounds like an eastern c=
oyote - or should I say, 'coywolf'.</div><div style=3D"width: 100%; font-si=
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round-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">They are everywhere; I live in central Da=
rtmouth, near Lake Banook, and last winter there were unmistakable coyote t=
racks in the snow on the ice of Maynard Lake. =E2=80=8EThey've hung out fro=
m time to time near the family cottage in Stanhope, PEI. And I've seen them=
in central Toronto, when I was looking out a window at Sunnybrook Hospital=
waiting for my dad - they trotted up from a ravine, crossed the lawns as b=
old as brass, waited from a break in four-lane traffic, and then headed int=
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-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Nature of Things did a fabulous documentar=
y on them last year - I encourage everyone to check out =E2=80=8Ehttp://www=
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<font size=3D"+1">Yesterday evening, roughly around 9pm I was startled
by a sudden loud rumpus/scrabbling sound on my deck; I grabbed a
flashlight and ran out to see what was going on - something - raccoon?
porcupine? my cat? was racing up the trunk of the tree adjacent to
my deck and while trying </font><font size=3D"+1"><font size=3D"+1">to
identify what it was</font> -</font><font size=3D"+1"><font size=3D=
"+1">unsuccessfully due to all the leaves still on the tree
-</font> I became aware of rustling amongst the nearby
undergrowth below my deck. My flashlight highlighted what I
initially took to be a dog - possibly a German shepherd - but in
the poor light the brownish coat looked shaggier and grayer than a
shepherd and the tail bushier and the legs shorter. It just stood
there looking back at me for some minutes until I made an
unwelcoming noise, when it then quietly moved away out of sight. A
few minutes later my cat was at the door wanting in.<br>
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Never having seen a coyote, I am wondering if this is what it
might have been; if they are currently known to be
around/increasing in the St Margarets Bay/Seabright area, is their
presence likely to be transient or permanent and are they mostly
active at night? <br>
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Any comments/opinions/advice will be most welcome!<br>
<br>
Eleanor Lindsay<br>
Seabright, St Margarets Bay<br>
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