Coyote Crossing

Cats and windmills

Image by Carl Buell.

The next person I see arguing that we shouldn’t worry about giant windmills because domestic cats kill far more birds, I’m going to take out to the middle of the Mojave so I can run them over with my Jeep.

This will be a

Heh

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Trouble manifests

N: I’m hungry. You may have meant to feed me and then forgotten you were going to feed me, so I’ll just remind you. Isn’t that thoughtful of me?

C: [sound of keyboard tapping]

N: You probably meant to get up to feed me when I reminded you fifteen

Otter Pop

We got a call last night from The Raven’s daughter to tell us her kitty Otter Pop was very sick. Shortly afterward she called us again.

He was strange and though he and Nosy didn’t really get along, he was a good boy. He tried sometimes to hide

Spat

By “bbence,” via Arizona Game and Fish. They have … (continues)

Settling in

Though my ex- did get Thistle through the worst of his head tilt it’s still disconcerting. To himself most of all. He’s disoriented, his sense of balance is affected, and it’s clear whatever is causing the head tilt involves some discomfort.

The

leaves of cat grass

OK, so there’s a LOLCat poetry forum at the new Read Write Poem.

That’s all the explanation I have for this.

Original image courtesy Tillwe … (continues)

Occupied Afghanistan

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J’accuse!

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RIP Macho B

Sad news involving Macho B, the jaguar recently collared and re-released in southern Arizona. Unfortunately, the big cat had to be euthanized today after veterinarians determined that he was in severe and unrecoverable kidney failure, a common

A moment for Oolie

Our pal Sherwood has lost a good friend.

Based on what Sherwood’s shared of Oolie’s spirit over the years, I suspect this is how he’d want to be remembered.

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Nosy Parker

By Chris Clarke on 2009 01 26 at 9:26:32 pm | 17 comments

I have an anniversary coming up next week, as many of you know, and it’s been on my mind as one might expect. Still tough, you know?

This year, though, I have a little bit of emotional support, and so the prospect of remembrance doesn’t seem

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By A Nail

By Chris Clarke on 2009 01 05 at 6:25:51 pm | 9 comments

A running coyote, painting by Carl Dennis Buell

The ancestor of all dogs climbed trees like a cat.

Or so the experts hypothesize. The raccoon-sized, foxy omnivore Prohesperocyon is as likely a candidate for the ancestor of all dogs, wolves and

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About me

I'm a natural history and environmental writer, an editor and photographer. I've lived in upstate New York, the SF Bay Area, Washington, DC, the Mojave Desert, and Los Angeles. My writing has appeared in publications ranging from Camas and Orion to Bay Nature, California Wild, the Boston Globe, and about thirty daily papers nationwide when I was a syndicated garden writer for the Knight-Ridder chain. No, I never got to meet the talking car.

I've traveled extensively in the Mojave, Great Basin and Sonoran deserts, as well as in the steppes and slickrock country of the Colorado Plateau.

About Coyote Crossing

This blog has existed in one form or another since 2003. At first it was called Creek Running North, after Pinole Creek, near where I lived back then. I moved in 2008 and renamed the site Coyote Crossing, but about a thousand people* still link here under the old name.

My publicist tells me I should mention that my writing here has frequently been called the best on the Internet.

* May not actually equal 1000

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Banner painting by Carl S. Buell.