Bare, IMHO, coyotes are hard to predict when they are hungry. I think you are right and normally they would stay away from the higher traffic areas. Our yard in our last home in the city butted up to a very deep ravine. We would hear the coyotes eerie howling down below in the summer evenings when sirens would blow. We occasionally would see one go through our yard and out in the street in the middle of the day as they hunted for food. One of these daytime scavengers had obviously delivered a litter very recently and was searching for food. They seemed to have been very much emboldened by all the encroachment of their normal hunting territories.
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