A couple of days ago, I saw a coyote crossing the street near the entrance to our neighborhood. I hope he's in the mood for rabbit.
There are a couple of hawks in the vicinity, but they've been letting me down; seems they're primarily interested in dining on mourning doves.
Update Speaking of critters, one of the locals was having trouble getting water to pour out of her watering can. Turned out, she had a clog.
I mean, a frog.
When I lived in AJ there were lots of coyotes, they didn't trim down the rabbits but they played hob with the cats and little dogs.
ReplyDeleteI lived where there was a spring so there was lots of birds, rabbits and even prairie dogs too, but the coyotes found it easier to go after cats who thought coyotes were just medium-sized dogs.
Coyotes are in my area... as are cougars, bobcats, and bears. Also owls, hawks and eagles. So it always interests me to see rabbits and squirrels and voles and other wee critters running around. But I suppose if the little varmints weren't around, neither would be the larger predators and raptors.
ReplyDeleteAnyway rural America is not a good place to let your pets run loose.
Yeah, with my luck the coyotes will probably turn out to be slackers who go after easy stuff like all these hybrid doodle/toodle/schnoodle dogs, and obese yard cats; although I don't think there are any neighbors who leave their dogs outside to run round without a leash. The biggest threat to dogs (and people) in these parts continues to be the big alligators that inhabit the ponds and creeks in the area.
ReplyDeleteyou have alligators? I thought those were a Florida thing.
ReplyDeleteThere was a serious feral cat population problem here in SE Washington 20 plus years ago. People would dump unwanted litters in the fields.
ReplyDeletePossibly coincidentally, the coyote population rebounded after decades of bounty hunting. The feral cat problem was shortly no more.