WEST SEATTLE WILDLIFE: Three Four coyote sightings

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6:20 PM: Thanks for the coyote-sighting reports! We’ve received three recently –

–Kathleen emailed today to report, “We saw a small coyote in our yard on 39th between Andover and Dakota at 6:30 a.m. this morning.”

-A texter reported two coyotes at Walt Hundley Playfield in High Point on Monday.

–Charrie saw that one via a security camera on their front porch at 60th/Charlestown on May 24.

This is not cause for alarm but rather awareness, which is why we have published reader coyote sightings from time to time over the past 15+ years – not everyone realizes they’re here living among us (or is it, we among them?). Authorities say the best way to ensure we and they can maintain a healthy distance apart is to not provide food sources – which can include anything from pet food to unattended small pets. Here’s more information on coexisting with coyotes.

ADDED 10:15 PM: Aaron has since sent this video recorded by his parents in Gatewood on Wednesday, a coyote running as a crow chased it:

Bradley June 6, 2024 (8:32 pm)

Bunny hunters, since the population has exploded and provided fertile grounds.

Carmen June 6, 2024 (11:02 pm)

2 coyotes have been hanging out on the 4700 block of 23 Ave SW for 2 weeks. They’ve killed numerous bunnies and early this morning, a neighbor’s cat was killed.

West Seattle Mad Sci Guy June 6, 2024 (11:19 pm)

Surprised by the crow hate. They probably do, but are they known for eating baby crows?

Mellow Kitty June 7, 2024 (9:00 am)

Crows are very protective of their nests. They will attack anyone or anything they consider a threat.
Careful Cat June 7, 2024 (12:38 pm)

MSG, it’s new baby season–many will launch today–and what MK said. Also,Urban Coyotes Eat Garbage, Ornamental Fruit and Domestic CatsCoyotes eat rats, mice, rabbits, squirrels, birds, fruit and insectsCoyotes are generally scavengers and predators of small prey but can shift to large prey occasionally. The most common food item for coyotes is small rodents.The real deal is that crow and jay babies leave the nest weeks before they can fly–why evolution did this or how in the world it works for them Kersti probly knows–and pretty much everything, def coyotes, eats such easy pickins. (A nabe once called me to save a fledgling jay from crows.) So if you hear crows raising bloody hell there’s (sometimes) a sometime-crow-eater near a hidden still-earthbound baby. (And if you happen on a ¾-size corvid huddling somewhere, weirdly he’s fine–and his family is shouting more at you than for him.)

KD June 6, 2024 (11:21 pm)

One ran past me down the street in Highland Park the other night at 11th. SW & SW Kenyon

Anywhere but here June 7, 2024 (12:26 am)

Lol. You ran that stop sign.

SusanS June 7, 2024 (5:51 am)

I toured Wolf Haven International in Tenino last Sunday and one of the tour guides told us we could report city or suburban coyote sitings to the community science programs at Woodland Park Zoo’s carnivorespotter.org/urban-carnivore-spotter/

Beto June 7, 2024 (8:35 am)

I love the coyotes, please Willie, come to Arbor Heights and have those wild rabbits for dinner! Those rabbits don’t belong to this area!

Eestyone June 7, 2024 (10:16 am)

The rabbits don’t ‘belong’ here? Last I knew they live outside.. we keep building houses where wildlife had their homes including the coyotes and the rabbits and everything else. Look in the mirror us humans….wildlife lives OUTSIDE. ……Coyotes: definitely hazardous to cats and other small meals. Sad but true for the cats, rabbits and other food for then. Look what WE eat (humans are not leaving wildlife room to eat/hunt exist)
- KinesthesiaAmnesia June 7, 2024 (2:10 pm)
  
  I think the OP was only trying to point out that the coyotes are native species of West Seattle while the wild rabbits are an invasive & non-native species from the US East coast.