Nah, coyotes can swim at least a half mile and in the ocean. The causeway just makes their passage easier.
What difference would it make if they were spotted? They are not allowed to be hunted or trapped.
Cars are not going to swerve onto the shoulder of the causeway to hit a coyote.
We have them in abundance in Jacksonville, Florida they’ve managed to cross the inter coastal waterway and the St. Johns River, I don’t think they cross the bridges or are deliberately placed there, I think they swim across otherwise I don’t see how they could cross in numbers without being seen
Anybody know what hardcastle and McCormick are up to these days
Nahant is a very wealthy place, and I have had some interesting interactions out there...I have zero doubt coyotes could just saunter out there without really being noticed. I suppose cameras set up (they no doubt have them) would pick them up.
It is a beautiful place. I’ve been to parties out on the point of Nahant, facing back towards Boston, and boy, it sure was a beautiful house. One of the houses has two WWII era concrete observation towers for spotting submarines, I would guess, that are still on their property.
How I would love to have one of those on my property if I lived near the ocean. I would build a man-cave up there.
Grew up there, first 33 years. Affluent though my family basic middle class. Crowded given the small area. Yes
1 sq mile and the causeway only way into and out of town (like the Marblehead Neck section of Marblehead). You can see the skyline of Boston from the causeway, Bass Point etc.
Gangster Jerry Anguilo lived there.
On the Nahant Facebook page there are posts
from at least one resident who believes the coyotes should not be shot/killed. Of
course the canines inspired those Wile E Coyote Looney Tune shorts.
Beverly, where I live now, also has had
coyote incidents.
No traffic lights.
No middle school or high school (students
attend those in Swampscott though in the 70s for me we did have a “junior high” and I went to high school in Lynn)
Maybe came across in the night...the causeway is about 1.3 miles long, maybe less and has a long beach and parking area.
Look up the Caloosahatchee river in SW Florida. Until a few years ago they were never south of it.
Now they are ALL OVER. The *only* way across was that river, which is pretty wide.
Deer and coyotes are all over the islands in Casco Bay, ME just off the city of Portland. The deer are so bad on some of those islands that people have to fence off their yards if they want to have any plantings.
The problem is the houses are very close together. So, the only hunting on the islands are archery.
A lot of coyotes in on the Mexican border. (Ba dum)
im sure they walk at night on the beach with out being seen. Also when i was a kid there were no wild turkeys around this area that I saw (North Shore). Now they are everywhere
Foxes and coyotes will run right past people go get where they wanna be.