An off-Island animal control officer came to the Vineyard Saturday to talk about coyotes after the predators have been seen several times on the Vineyard this winter.

A live coyote was spotted wandering the woods of Aquinnah this week, caught on a trail camera off Attaquin Way.

A dead Eastern coyote was found washed up on the north shore of the Vineyard this past week, Island wildlife experts confirmed.

Footage of a live Eastern coyote was recorded on a trail camera in Oak Bluffs, close to Goodale’s pit, Island wildlife biologist Gus Ben David confirmed. It marks the third sighting in the last eight months.

Early Wednesday afternoon, Ralph and Cynthia DeFelice saw and photographed a coyote swimming between two of the Elizabeth islands.

A disemboweled deer fawn carcass was found late last week near the Edgartown Water Company station at Wintucket, further confirming the presence of a coyote on Martha’s Vineyard.

The Vineyard has had its second confirmed sighting of a live Eastern coyote — the first sighting in at least three years — Island wildlife biologist Gus Ben David 2nd said Wednesday.

The recent report of another coyote washing up on the Vineyard’s north shore prompts a few observations on the prospects of the coyote establishing a population here.

A dead coyote was found washed ashore early this week on Lambert's Cove Beach, the second coyote to wash up in that location this year. An Island naturalist said the coyote likely came from Naushon, which hosts a large population of coyotes, and drowned.

As sorry as Mark Twain described coyotes in Roughing It may appear, there seems to be little sympathy for coyotes on Martha’s Vineyard.