a dog, a coyote and a tennis ball

On the morning of December 7th, 2020, I took our Weimaraner Luna for some exercise playing fetch on the tennis courts at a neighborhood park before starting my work day. After a while, I noticed we had company. I've seen coyotes alongside the road in deep East Texas before so it didn't take long to realize what it was. I pulled out my phone to photograph the coyote and then realized it was sticking around so I switched to video. I was intrigued by how interested it seemed to be in Luna. And she was also interested in it. At least for a while... 

St Francis Park is in a wildlife corridor running along Ash Creek as it winds through East Dallas. I routinely see neighbors report sightings of a variety of creatures in the neighborhood on the NextDoor app, animals that likely make their home along this creek. This coyote looked healthy, well-fed, so it seems life in the corridor is pretty good. An entirely different world, tucked right in between broad tracks of residential homes like ours.

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