Coyote pack of 6 hootin’ and hollerin’ in camera view

Here's a pack of 6 coyotes getting all excited and making the noise we hear often and sometimes wakes us up when they are close by.
Several times the trail cameras have recorded them having a party just off camera. At least twice they've walked just behind a camera or just past the camera's view and got loud.
#coyotes

[@mitzicowell]

I live by the Rillito River, probably near you, and this is an incredible visual capture of something we hear all the time but never get to see - thanks! I freaking LOVE this sound, and all the voices and personalities you can hear.

[@azdesertcritters]

I’m out near Sabino High School. They use this wash to travel here and visit behind me and use our driveway on their route. There are a few more of them doing this in view of the camera in my Coyote playlist. Here is one other example: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nqSblpyrjs2SgJo

[@excitablepack7076]

They sound adorable to me.

[@azdesertcritters]

They enjoy the gathering of the family.

[@msmedved_]

Great capture! I had a feeling they would be playful like this while making these howls and yelps. I do miss hearing them when I lived near the desert

[@TinaHikesColorado]

Loved it! We hear them all the time near our home in Colorado. Occasionally I get a mated pair on my trail cam.

[@azdesertcritters]

In August I had a family with their teenagers with them. Destructive buggers. I have on video with up to 10 coyotes, one where dad is disciplining a youngster. If you’ve not seen this one before here is a destructive teen. They did this to 4 cameras. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aWjbZYGKna6Ne9U

[@tlcrobles]

I’m about 70 miles southeast of you and know this audio very well. Thank you for sharing your video so we can all see the behavior that accompanies the soundtrack of our beautiful desert at night

[@azdesertcritters]

we hear them often and was fun to finally show them being happy and noisy.

[@Gleeba123]

That sounds cute but when you wake up at 4am with them doing that outside your window it's scary because that happened to me there was a pack of coyotes outside my window

[@azdesertcritters]

For us as well, sometimes they are so loud we think they are on the other side of our wall, but the sound carries so well that they are 50-60 yards away. They could if they wanted to do this next to the windows of some bedrooms, but I don’t think that ever happened. I understand how it does sound scary as that’s how I felt in the early years at our house and especially when that is going on at night and we are out there with our dogs bedtime potty time.

[@BobMeyers]

You're a lucky man. Where I am coyotes must be tightly controlled because I rarely see them on my rural land. I love that sound.

[@azdesertcritters]

They came from your way to my way.

[@michaelmueller9635]

That's beautiful

[@azdesertcritters]

Pretty cool to see them having a good time.

[@bunnysb2587]

They look like they having a party

[@azdesertcritters]

Always so happy and excited when they meet up.

[@drew_de8990]

Gonna use this tonight on Bluetooth. Hopefully works well 😂

[@azdesertcritters]

@@drew_de8990 Don’t understand what you are planning with bluetooth?

[@witchybritches13]

I have a pack around my house somewhere. I’m in Michigan. I hear them all the time too. At least 2-3 times a week or more

[@azdesertcritters]

Does the sound carry where you live? It does here. Sometimes I sounds like they are just on the other side of our backyard wall. In my Coyote playlist there are a couple videos of them in camera view making their vocalizations. Here’s one kzbin.info/www/bejne/jKelpoacrdZ3j9Usi=clLHHpiNNfiv9nhM

[@witchybritches13]

@@azdesertcritters I have acres of flat farmland all around me so I’d say yes, the sound carries. Sometimes its difficult to pinpoint where they’re at. It’s crazy how loud they can be. It always sounds so chaotic too. Lol

[@azdesertcritters]

@@witchybritches13 Sometimes they sound like they are right next to the house.

[@witchybritches13]

@@azdesertcritters yes! I’ll look out my windows and don’t see anything. Sometimes it feels like they’re bright in my front yard. But I can never find them.

[@Cupcakesmuffins]

Me and my homeboys (i don't got none 😔)

[@thelancemanion]

what camera?

[@azdesertcritters]

Browning Recon Force Elite HP4. The HP4 was recently replaced with HP5. The HP5 has a little better night video due to some new lighting features. HP5 is also a little wider angle view.

[@luisnavarro880]

I have the same issue at 1am all the coyote pack comes to wake up all my dogs. I also seen a wild brown wolf no collar. And rarely a pack of wild dogs. Of corse there’s hundreds of rats and bunny’s for them to feast. I pass by them with my chiwawas and they back off.

[@azdesertcritters]

That’s good that they don’t come after your dogs when you go for a walk. The coyote noises is not so interesting to hear at 1am. I have more video I haven’t put together to post of them yipping and yelling right next to the camera. It was very loud.

[@ThePirateLab]

Great video. Would you mind if I played this for my students in my value of biodiversity lecture this week? I record my lectures and then put them on KZbin for review after the fact. I would put a link to your original video in my descriptions and fully credit you. Thanks

[@azdesertcritters]

You have my permission if you are just linking to my video.

[@markprice4260]

A coyote chorus

[@azdesertcritters]

They practice often.

[@johnnyfreedom3437]

Yippee Yahoo, it's night time let's go outside and play

[@azdesertcritters]

I love when I catch them on camera making noise. I’ve got lots of coyote video that I haven’t caught up on. I am going to put out another video of them getting noisy. Lots of video of them playing. Got your nose, got your tail.

[@ChristopherDillman]

I hear those calls all the time in my canyon nearby. What does it mean? 1) Are they happy to be reunited, and have stories to tell from their solo adventures? ; 2) Are they calling out to other members of their pack? ; 3) Warning other nearby packs this is our turf, don't approach? ; 4) They've found a fresh kill? Still looking for answers.

[@azdesertcritters]

From the multiple videos I have of this, it is when they are reunited. Pretty sure this is not a warning and not a fresh kill. I have at least two where a single is calling out to the others, which is a little different. Here is a link to them. Coyote calling out and gets a response kzbin.info/www/bejne/h32okqegiJ6kqLs Coyote barking and gets a reply kzbin.info/www/bejne/b3Pdo4NooaqBntE

[@timcoll4463]

A lot of coyote's

[@azdesertcritters]

Or this big pack. kzbin.info/www/bejne/n4bNhKWCqrF4adU

[@azdesertcritters]

9 coyotes are chasing? kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z565eH2fn5iahsk

[@jo.frmva1]

Explains that noise I heard once the screaming and stuff thought it was children

[@azdesertcritters]

It had been quiet for awhile, but last few weeks the coyotes have been quite vocal. The sound carries so at times not sure how far away they are and other times, they are very close. They can get very loud. Children can be very loud as well when there is a pack of children playing. 😁

[@jo.frmva1]

@@azdesertcritters yep true

[@bsdgffishtuna5186]

best viewed on mute.

[@azdesertcritters]

They are quite loud. That’s why sometimes when they are 50-60 yards away from us outside at night it sounds much closer.

[@michaelholt8590]

My two Great Pyrenees kill all the coyotes they can.

[@wolfkinglobo525]

Gay

[@michaelholt8590]

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[@wolfkinglobo525]

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[@michaelholt8590]

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[@wolfkinglobo525]

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