Coyote spotted swimming in the Bay near Angel Island

Is it a seal? Or a sea lion?

That's what Bill Miller, a state parks scientist, first thought when he recorded an animal swimming in the Bay over the weekend.

What Miller spotted was actually a coyote dog-paddling toward Tiburon before turning around and going back onto Angel Island.

Miller's video was posted on Angel Island State Park's Instagram account, but it's not the only one he has captured. The scientist has taken more pictures of coyotes on the island in the past.

There's a coyote population that's been growing since 2017 on the island, where it's believed a coyote arrived for the first time on record. Miller said that while the whole situation is unusual, it's also exciting.

"We had one coyote show up on the island and it was seen by a staff member, nobody believed him... and