Coyotes in the field

It's a travesty that I haven't been down to the field in the last month, whether to clean or just walk around.  I blame school.  There's probably a new generation of foxes playing around the den, but I wouldn't know!  I do know, however, that there are coyotes in the field, because they've been howling up a storm late at night.  It's amazing how many different animals can inhabit such a small field, whether permanently or transiently.  I'm sure that the coyotes, like the foxes, use corridors to move through the neighborhood and developed areas to get to undeveloped "islands" like the field.  If they can help support mammals as large as a coyote, little fragments of open space like this may be even more valuable than I'm always saying.  I don't doubt that they spend more time at larger nearby open spaces, like Westminster Hills and Standley Lake, but there's no doubt that they're benefiting from the field right now.

I have been thinking about posting some stuff I've written for school...