that would be my educated guess...they do make quite a racket when that close, huh. I do miss the late night coyote sing in our area. We are going through a building boom right now and all the empty land is being built upon. Once in a great while we can hear the coyotes move across the landscape late on a summmer night. I miss that.
I heard a story on WTOP news that the coyotes living in D.C.'s Rockcreek park were "singing" at night. Apparently the sound was causing the animals at the National Zoo to get a bit ancy.
LOL! Bigtime. I was amazed that this small animal (maybe 40 lbs.) would not back off when confronted by a human (armed, though madam coyote didn't know that) and a 110 lb dog that is nothing but a life support system for a set of jaws. Guess it's that "female and their young" thing. I still get to hear the coyote chorus almost every night, I love it, makes me feel at home.