I watched a healthy looking coyote sniffing along behind the chain link fence next to the Sounder train station this morning in Tukwila.
Nice little greenbelt for this coyote, if I do say so, courtesy of The Boeing Company and the previous owners of Longacres.
I have noticed a handful of urban coyotes in the past couple of years including in my neighborhood.
For some reason people get freaked out with these critters running around – I find Pit-bulls to be much more worrisome.
Go coyote go.
blief 
Jim says he can hear coyotes sometimes on his route to work in that swampy area of Bellevue near Newport Shores!!
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I recall a coyote on HWY 167 when you were small, ran alongside the freeway for miles on our way home from Granny’s.
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I used to hear coyotes at the Slough and at the townhouse all the time. I loved hearing their yips!! There was something comforting about the fact that these wild animals can endure with all this constant urbanization everywhere. I miss that sound…now all we get is fire sirens and drunken college students…yay (NOT)
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The coyote (pronounced Ky-oat, in South Dakota-ese) is a wily creature, able to habituate with (and within) human ‘civilization’. Except for airplanes.
Prior to and during WWII, coyotes could be legally hunted from airplanes; in South Dakota, many small aircraft were bought and paid for with the bounty paid for evidence of the killing of coyotes ($10 per animal at one time). In addition, the pelt (hide) could be sold for $5-$15. When a Piper Cub could be purchased brand new for about $2,000, it is easy to see that one could be bought with the bounty received in only one year.
The result of this practice resulted in the near extinction of coyotes in SD by the late 1940’s; I too liked to hear the “yip-yip-yii-ii–iiee-yip” when I was growing up. I sorely missed them when I could no longer hear them. Oh, and the other result of this hunting was the near-inundation of the State by Jack Rabbits and other vermin, which had been the main source of food for the coyote.
Now, with the hunting from aircraft being illegal and the bounty no longer paid, the coyotes have returned, the Jack Rabbits and other vermin have been brought under control and “all is well”.
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A student in eastern WA once brought an orphaned coyote pup for show and tell (before transferring it to a wildlife rehabilitation center). They are the softest little critters! Pit bulls are way creepier.
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Coyotes creep me out more than pit bulls because they are much more diabolical and athletic. They seem to hop over six foot fences with little effort which enables them to enjoy cute little animals like kittens, bunnies, & puppies for dinner.
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I worked for a couple of years at the SouthGate Plaza, very near the Tukwila train station. I saw a coyote several times, even in the middle of the day. One Spring a pair of Canada geese built a nest in the middle of our parking lot. The goose sat on the nest while the gander patrolled the area. He would perch on top of a parked car and then launch down and after anybody who came near. It took teamwork for people to get into their nearby cars. One day the nest was abandoned, with several un-hatched eggs in it. There were goose feathers everywhere but no sign of the geese or whatever had chased them off. We think it was the coyote.
I hope it was the coyote, and that he got a good meal out of it. We have lots of Canada geese around here, and we don’t need them taking over our parking lots.
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