Hunting with Mike

Last evening  we sat around a bonfire in the back yard roasting marshmellows for smore’s.  There were several of my children and grandchildren enjoying the cool Michigan evening together with grandma and papa.  My son all of a sudden said “everyone be quiet!”  Trying to get my crew to be quiet at the drop of a hat is not easy, but finally it was  “eerie quiet.”

“What’s going on I asked my son?”  “Just listen Dad” he whispered.  Then my deaf ears picked up the faint “yip-yip-yip-ooow” from a woods to the east of us.  Within seconds a second group of coyotes to the west started chiming in.  It was pretty neat listning to the “Call of the Wild” right there in my own back yard.  The local farmers chickens, ducks, and geese might not of thought it was so cool, but it added a real outdoor backyard “boonie” experience to the evening.

Twenty five or thirty years ago a coyote in Monroe was a rare sight, but now it is quite commonplace.  Weather this is good or bad I can’t say, but to know there are several packs of “little wolves” running around my neck of the woods, makes me feel kind of “wild” in my own backyard!

Mike

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