CAPICOSTIA: COYOTES IN CAPICOSTIA! THE DISTRICT COYOTE PROJECT IS WATCHING!

by Edgar Miraculous Dyer

COYOTES are loose in Southeast Washington, D.C. ..and ANC-7B, most specifically!

We're surrounded by deep, unspoiled, picturesque woodlands in Fort Davis, Dupont Park, Penn Branch, Randle Highlands, Pope Branch Park, Hillcrest and Westover! That's charming...even comforting to some of us, ..but these areas also offer shelter and food resources - Nature's supermarkets - to our resident wildlife. So let's be careful, out there, coming home or taking out our garbage after dark.

No, amigo--that's NOT the neighbor's COLLIE. Where'd Mr. Paul's Collie go? Lassie...? Oh, no. (Original photo from Wikipedia)

Do you know how long I've been telling my Fairfax Village neighbors that we've got coyotes passing through, along our patios, back doors, parking lots and back walkways? They have been sniffing around and foraging from our trash, since at least 2012, ..and spotted as far Southeast as Savannah Terrace, just off of Stanton Road! When you have a look at the District Coyote Project's map of LIVE COYOTE SIGHTINGS, ..you will find one right in Fairfax Village, at the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and Fort Davis Street! That's MY street, you see.

Wake up, Fairfax Village.

Let's keep an eye out ..in the bushes and forested patches around our yards and sidewalks, for our resilient noble, four-legged neighbors. We shouldn't try to feed them. We shouldn't threaten them, unless they're too close, ..or try to hurt them, either. Just keep wary, where we're walking, working and playing outdoors, knowing we share the land with full-grown Eastern Coyotes and their wild canine cousins (other coyotes, wild and feral dogs, Gray and Red Fox, larger displaced canines, etc)...

Confident that we in Seven Bee are not alone in our vigilance or the blessing that is our enduring, insatiable curiosity about NATURE! If that's working for you, check out the District Coyote Project.

Edgar Miraculous (Mel) Dyer, Capicostia's publisher, without his fine, coyote-hatin' Goldiweiller, Kirby (now moved on to that big, coyote-hatin' hate group in the Sky) continues a somewhat bleaker, dogless existence in the Capitol Hill area of Washington, DC. He has been an active member of the Latino Culture Council of the Capitol Area (El Consejo de Cultura Latina – La Zona del Capitolio), the Kiwanis Club of Capitol Hill and the Board of Directors for both Total Care Services, Inc. and YMCA Capital View.