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Coyote Song

By on September 12, 2015

This summer, we’ve accumulated some new neighbors that often keep us awake at night. Their haunting howls can put a chill right up your spine and wake you up from a sound sleep. We’ve been visited by them before, but this time I decided to record them. It is interesting to note that the Eastern Coyote (the ones who visit us) is actually considered a hybrid coyote-wolf, often referred to as a coywolf. These coyotes are typically larger than their western counterparts. We never experienced them during my childhood; they are fairly new to our part of Pennsylvania. Here’s a quick little video that I put together to feature the audio I recorded from the bedroom window. They are not popular animals here, but I have to admit, they are somewhat fascinating.

About Michael Henderson

Born and bred in Franklin, Pennsylvania, Mike learned about adventure from an early age. Even before he learned to walk, Mike made trips to the Outer Banks with his family, where he slept under his dad’s cot in a canvas tent along the beach. The adventures continued, to the mountains, the Great Lakes, the Pacific Coast, and everywhere in between. Those trips included backpacking into the Grand Canyon and up Mount Rainier, camping in the Rockies in the snow, and skiing right out the front door at home on old alpine skis with cable bindings. Other family activities including canoeing, water skiing, ice skating, bouldering, body surfing, and fishing. By the 1980s, Mike’s interests expanded to include windsurfing, inline skating, photography, and eventually mountain biking, geocaching, and kayaking. He currently teaches photography at the Venango College of Clarion University, as well as windsurfing, geocaching, camping skills, and cross-country skiing at various local outdoor workshops. He collaborated and managed what has been considered the world’s largest, longest-running, and most successful geotrail, the Allegheny Geotrail. Some of his paddling exploits include two Ocracoke-to-Portsmouth Island crossings; St. Ignace, Michigan-to-Mackinac Island; and multiple excursions along the entire Pennsylvania shoreline of Lake Erie.

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