Coyotes

A coyote on 2nd street. Shortly after he ate my cat I think. An enhanced detail of the above photo. Coyotes alongside CR-28H near CR-102, Sept 2011.

You can hear Coyotes in the farmland all around Davis at night. In North Davis they come down from north of County Road 29 and they hang out in the field north of Hunt's. To the west they can be heard west of Highway 113 south of Russell Boulevard in West Davis. Their favorite haunt to the south is the South Fork of Putah Creek which stretches from the distant west to the east.

Coyotes range through all of North and Central America, with a wide variety of subspecies. If you think you might have heard one, you can compare to these recordings.

Coyotes look more like this, when up close: taken in the Sierra Nevada Mountains near hiking areas that aren't near Davis:

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I what could have been a pack of 5 or 6 tonight —StevenDaubert

Occasionally, I've spotted coyote trotting through the fields on the east side of County Road 102 at dusk, between Woodland and Davis. I've also seen a dead coyote that had been struck by a car alongside Highway 113...both roads get pretty quiet at night, so be careful to avoid an unsuspecting coyote (or other animals) who may have wandered into lanes. —DukeMcAdow

2008-06-03 23:23:38   The last few nights I've heard coyotes making yipping and short hooting noises in the fields west of Road 102 and north of Hunt's. They sound like the tracks "Coyote Yips" and "Coyote Bark" in the audio link above. —DukeMcAdow

2010-08-16 21:18:28   I was about 20ft from one this morning while jogging in the fields of north east Davis, he or she was making quite a racket! —MadelineWalzem