Many are familiar denizens across the country, in many different climates and environments. Lyanda Lynn Haupt has written The Urban Bestiary from her own back yard, cataloging and describing the birds, beasts, and trees that inhabit her Seattle neighborhood. And that last moment, when the illusion fails and for an instant you're in a communion that escapes words precisely because the "other" in that communion has no words. The preconception, leading us to all the wrong conclusions. The encounter with nature, in the last place you'd expect. The Urban Bestiary: Encountering the Everyday Wild is about moments like these-in all their complexity. That shifted my frame of reference she was much smaller, and closer, than I’d thought. But then I noticed that the tail was way too fluffy. Because the coyote had very dark fur, I mistook her for the German shepherd I knew was looking for me. I'd been hiding for a search-and-rescue exercise, hunkered down in a ditch. The closest I've ever come to a coyote-almost close enough to touch her-was in a suburban construction site.
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