The resident living on Patrick Henry Lake in Sullivan County, TN sent me the photos of the white animal he was able to photo capture across the lake from his home last winter. What he is calling the Alpha "wolf" is the very light tan male which was seen with the black female and three pups and frequenting a cave. So he seems to suggest this is a white coyote but not the father or Alpha of the parents and pups at the cave. He did not get a picture of the black female. During the winter, I had a long talk with a TWRA wildlife officer and we discussed coyotes in Sullivan County. He said he had personally picked up two or three road killed black coyotes in the north bound lane of I-81 on the Tri-City Airport side of the bridge over Patrick Henry Lake north of Colonial Heights near Kingsport. He said TWRA official think maybe there is a genetic group of black coyotes in that area. TWRA biologist Pete Wyatt of Talbot near Morristown, TN told me he had not personally seen a black coyote but there have been others seen and/or killed In the southeastern part of the state. In Southwest Virginia, hunters have shot maybe a half dozen or more black coyotes in the Chilhowie area and several can be seen mounted in local stores in that town. Our group, working on the Golden Eagle study in Russell County, VA about two winters back, got a photo of a black coyote coming to a baited wildlife camera on Clinch Mountain in Russell Co, VA. Tom Hunter has the original photo of that animal. Wallace Coffey Bristol, TN Attachments: photos of white coyote at Patrick Henry Lake.
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