We'd see them a few times a year when I lived with my mom in Millrise, coming up from Fish Creek. Living in Chaparral now, I get them sometimes there too.
The cool thing is I can hear coyotes about once or twice a week about 6 months a year in Chap too. I've run into them on two occasions too. Once just one. One time three came trotting down a pathway towards me till they noticed me and stole into the brush. Something soothing for me though, hearing them bay at night as I go to sleep.
Maybe one of the more rare events happened when I was still living with my mom in Millrise. Though deer were pretty common, one weekend we actually got a moose running around the neighbourhood! Fish and wildlife had to come out to tranq it though. As the story went in the Herald the next day, the moose's final stop was to nose around the yard of a hunter. The wife called him up at work to tell him, 'your not going to believe this!' I guess he got home in time to see F&W loading him in their truck or whatever they use and taking him away.
