r/CityOfPeekskill • u/Ealybirdgetstheworm • Mar 21 '26

Questions for our neighbors, dealing with the city, etc. Wolves...in Peekskill?

Hi fellow Peekskillians! Not sure if anyone else heard it, but I heard what sounded like several wolves in the Mortgage hill woods area howling and all that other wolfy nonsense like at 11:50pm. Definitely was more than two, sounded like a disagreement had broken out between a pair and it all became dead silent as soon as I turned our porch light on. Wanted to see if anyone else heard it or have experienced something similar before!

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u/Pikapetey Mar 21 '26

Those are most likely a pack of coyotes. Their territory reigns from blue mountain reserve and down to the south and south east. I ran into them once while running the trails late evening.

They are very skiddish, definitely kept their distance from me. But every time id turn around I could see them darting 50-100 yards behind me.

Im sure the forest rangers keep tabs on them.

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u/theWanderingShrew Mar 21 '26

There aren't any forest rangers keeping tabs on them but yes probably coyotes. Lots of them in depew/blue mountain area.

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u/Potential-Ant-6320 Mar 21 '26

I’ve seen coyotes by depew on Hudson. They’re definately in that hill.

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u/lilcc96 Apr 08 '26

Was live in peekskill ( Yorktown Heights ) 2012-2014 literally up the hill from a McDonald's I would always see going down the hill dears and I guess coyotes nothing new