Shortly after darkness settled into Los Angeles last night, an ambulance made its way, siren screaming, up the street beyond the Rowena reservoir in Los Feliz, a very trendy, densely populated neighborhood. As the siren began to fade into the distance, the friends who live in the home where I took the Winter Solstice photo, opened their front door and we all could hear the coyotes yipping from their home across the street.
There is now a family of coyotes living on the grounds surrounding the Rowena Reservoir as well as a pack of them in the greenbelt along the freeway nearby. The fence you can see in this photo of the entrance to the reservoir does not keep them out. According to my friends, the coyotes yip and cry (or is it singing?) every time a siren comes by and every time they make a kill. From time to time the Department of Water and Power sends someone to trap the coyotes and take them away to release elsewhere. But they come right back.
Nature is persistent.
