Eeeeeeek!! That is terrifying... we have coyotes around all the time. The other day, one was in my backyard, not once but twice during broad daylight. He/she was digging up all the crabapples underneath the snow. Oddly enough, surrounded by birds and not attacking them. Vegetarian coyote??
I have always been told that coyotes are more scared of us than we are of them. But I don't let my kids get complacent about them, either!!