SADDLE RIVER, New Jersey (WABC) -- A man who was bitten by a coyote in his own yard is speaking out after the second such attack in Bergen County in two days.

Mike Vincent says he was doing yardwork at his home in Saddle River on Tuesday when the coyote attacked and bit him several times.

It happened around 6:30 p.m. and he says he didn't see it coming.

"I was using this pole trimmer, it's a long pole with a saw on the end of it, I'm looking up... the next thing I know I get bit right here, OK, of course I turn around and there he is," Vincent said.

Vincent said it was clear to him the animal wanted to engage.

"He didn't bite me and run away, he wants to engage, so he starts nipping at me like this... and I hit him in the side of the head as hard as I could hit him," Vincent said.

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