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Source: "Charlie Down" - She hadn't been there long (still warm), and moving her carcass off the road revealed the salty silhouette from passing cars on a winter highway. Young female coyote with a beautiful winter coat.

FYI: This photo wasn't edited/retouched in any way.

©2010 Dylan Menges

More Denver Area Coyotes in the News

On my way to work last Thusday morning I was stopped a light at 7 am in the Tech Center area of Denver/Centennial and I looked off to my right and thought to myself "who's dog is that?" because there was no one near the creature besides three lanes of office workers sipping coffee in their cars. It took me a second to realize that the dog I was looking at on the manicured lawn among Tech Center office buildings was actually a good sized coyote. As soon as the traffic started moving again, the coyote ran out of sight. Coyotes have actually been making a lot of local headlines lately:

Here's a photo of Greenwood Village's own "Limpy" the Coyote - see the campaign to protect "Limpy" and other area coyotes here. Also - this week's Westword has an article about Greenwood Village coyote hazing using paintball guns.

Recent headline on the Glendale Cherry Creek chronicle - article here

April 2009 photo from Aurora, CO - photo by flickr user HopefulNebula

Coyote "Hazing"

Beautiful photo by flickr users Carly&Art

Last week Christopher N. Osher of the Denver Post wrote, "Denver parks officials say killing and trapping are ineffective approaches to nuisance coyotes and they plan instead to educate the public to start "hazing" the animals....Targeted mailings have gone out to neighborhoods of southeast Denver telling residents to "haze" coyotes by making loud noises and threatening gestures when they see them."