I actually saw a coyote this year crawl under a cedar tree....
Watched the dog runners get one behind my house back in December...
My wife just happens to be looking out the patio door window andsays "Hey, is that a coyote running across the farmer's field?" ... instantly I spring to attention and sure enough, there is a yote loping across the field at a pretty good clip (east to west)...its out about 250 yards. Heading west it gets about 1/8 of a mile from the road and stops, and turns back where it came from...I'm thinking it saw something on the road so I run to another window and sure enough there is a truck parked on the road...I now know its the dog runners. So the coyote starts heading back east, but he knows the dogs are on his trail (I can't see them ... yet). So the coyote goes 1/8 mile back east to an old fense line between fields, and he turns north like he wants to escape through the farmer's pature. There must be another truck or something to the north because he goes about 150 yards, stops again, and comes back south...Now, on this old fense line there is a lony old cedar tree, about 12 feet high and about as wide...from my vantage it looks like he dives in there.
About 2 mins later here comes the first tracking dog. This dog followed that coyotes trail EXACTLY where he ran...first to the west, then stopped, then back to the east, then stopped, then to the north, then back to the south (as the first tracking dog is heading back south right for the cedar tree the coyote is in, two other dogs show up...) By this time the first tracking dog is at the cedar tree and the other two join up with it and they are barking because the coyote is bayed. Seems like a minute or two goes by and here comes a guy walking from the east. Walks up to the cedar tree...and at this point I think he had pistol or something because he was on the backside of the tree, because the next thing I see is him pulling the dead yote out and heading west towards the truck...
Overall is was kinda neat to see I guess, but it didn't seem all that sporting.