This past
Tuesday morning my dog Lizzi woke me up as she always does around 7:00am and
wants to go outside. My routine is to
step out of bed and open the window blinds that face the front of the
building. Mind you 7:00 am, the Sun is
shining brightly and to my surprise, no to my horror, 8’ from me is a large
coyote. He must have been sleeping
peacefully on the beautiful stepping stones nestled between lush green
plantings. As I opened the blinds it
stood up, my mouth dropped open, it looked around prior to it prancing over
onto the driveway. It stopped again to
look around, and it continued to prance down the street towards the paths and
onto the back of Queens to then lay down.
At this point I told myself to breath.
I have news for you, had Lizzi and I walked out the front door and
experienced this lost creature I would have woken up the whole development and
the entire surrounding areas with my scream.
The poor squirrels wouldn’t stop sketching from the Crabtree as if to warn
everyone around that there was a predator in our midst. My intent in sharing the story in so much as
to say, as much as we need to be considerate of our human neighbors, we need to
respect our prolific wildlife neighbors sharing our community for better and
for worse. The same morning I experienced
the coyote, I had to stop the car on my street to allow a Goose family to cross
with 7 goslings in tow. I thought “Come
on …really?)
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