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By Gordon Certain
You've all seen the "Where's Waldo?" books. In North Buckhead we've been playing a new variation: "Where's Wiley?"
As neighbor Kim Killebrew astutely observed, "The neighborhood is now divided into two groups: those who have seen the coyote and those who haven't." We're all thinking, "Where is the Roadrunner, now that we need him?"
That's the way it has been lately in North Buckhead. What a month it's been! Dozens and dozens of reports of the coyote:
Running on Peachtree Road in front of the Wieuca Road Baptist Church
Standing by the fire station at Phipps Plaza
Crossing Phipps Boulevard
Blocking traffic on N Stratford Road, Longleaf Drive, Old Ivy Road, etc.
Lying on N. Ivy Road in front of our house
Walking on the sidewalks along Wieuca Road
Strolling thru people's driveways and yards
Morning, noon, afternoon, and night
Apparently, nobody told "Wiley" that coyotes are nocturnal and are frightened of people.
Rather, it was the neighbors who were frightened. Some of them were hiding their cats and little dogs safely inside. And their little kids too.
So is the coyote dangerous? We found out the Fulton Animal Control people don't react when we tell them we have a wild coyote in our midst. The Georgia Dept. of Natural Resources people say, "If you don't want that coyote around, hire your own trapper to move him out." (Once again, our tax money, hard at work.)
We talked with one neighbor, who told us, "I've got a gun and if that coyote comes into my yard, I'll shoot him." And, with the coyote's disregard
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