Allright, allright - I’m such a New Mexico Newbie. Go ahead, laugh.
Last July I wrote about a ‘coyote’ I had seen here while driving through the mountains. It was very pretty, more colors, and I even stated “no it was not a wolf’. Sheesh, could I have fit my virtual foot any farther into my mouth?
It was a wolf. A Mexican Wolf, no doubt part of the Wolf Recovery Project in Arizona and New Mexico. It looked exactly like this picture I snagged from Wiki:
Mexican Wolf (courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)
And now that I have been enlightened, I realize that I could have alerted the forestry service that one of their wolves, possibly from the Gila release, was wandering around the Lincoln National Forest. But it was over a year ago. If I see it again, I will definitely make a call.
In my own defense, it does resemble a coyote to me – lanky, sharp face, on the small side for a wolf, but on the large side for a coyote. I’ll know better next time.
Hey – I saw a black bear last spring too! Or maybe it was a big dog . . .
~Nan
