Coyote

Walking up driveway after getting mail. Heard deer screaming in field of fescue ready to cut for hay. Saw coyote killing fawn. Ran to house about 30 yards away and got rifle. By the time I got back coyote was gone and I couldn't find any trace of him after walking around a while. A child could have been gone that quick, but of course I wouldn't have waited to get a rifle.

This running around in the mid day sun is tough on someone recovering from upper respiratory infection. Or maybe it's just age. Nah, couldn't be that.

KEH

Yesterday after mowing the lawn I decided to trim a low branch off a flowering crab tree. After I had that done I admired my work and holy cow!there was a racoon on a branch above where I cut. This tree's only 15 feet high. I got my 12 ga. and took care of coon. Carried his carcass across the road and into a newly no-til planted bean in last year's corn stubble field. Next surprise, a couple hours later there were 3 turkey buzzards feasting on the coon. And they were back again today. I'm amazed they found it so soon.

Coyote have made it all the way east here to Virginia...several have been spotted in my area recently-- along with a giant increase in black bear spottings as well...

As us humans keep overpopulating the planet and moving in everwhere, critters got to have somewhere to go...

Black bear spotted around here in Western SC also.

KEH

Coyotes have been around here for 25+ years. One of my father's friends used to hunt them till new homeowners complained about the gun shots. Buffalo(!) farmer in town will setup a stillborn calf and jacklight them to keep the population down on his farm.

Guy at the hardware store across the street was showing off a pic he had taken of a black bear cub up on the road I used to live on when I was growing up in town. You know, back then I wouldn't have needed the big Buck knife my mom made me carry when I was out playing in the woods

Given the rate Moose are moving, I don't figure it will be that much longer till we have verified sitings in town.

Turkeys are very common now. That's been helped by the Racoon population being decimated since 1990 by Rabies and it's never recovered.

We've been spotting them ocassionally here in central MIchigan - hearing the OFTEN, especially after dark. By the time you get out in the field with a spotlight, they're far gone. Never used to have them around here. Sure hope the llamas protect my sheep good. I'm paying them high wages!

SW lower Mich. Coyotes about 10 years. DNR released them to eliminate red foxes. Ever hear a pack run by? Its enough to scare you to death. Loud like a train. They are getting scarcer. I have only seen one in daylight.

You're lucky that they didn't release mountain lions like they did in Nebraska. chris

Coyotes were never west of the mississippi until bridges were being built across the river .

We got alot ofem up here in Maine.We bait them and hunt them at night.All legal like.Makes your hair stand on end when they are fighting over bait. Hoss

Speaking of VA, I killed one about 2 1/2 years ago in Prince William County....lots of deer and small game for them...the one I got was about 1/2 mile from Manassas Battlefield Park...they have about 5000 acres of nothing but deer and no hunting in there. shrps74

Sure, deer are pretty creatures, especially fawns. But this goes back to the "predator and prey" thing, the way Mother Nature designed it and intended it to be, the way it's always been, long long before humans came on the scene.... In most areas of the country, deer are highly overpopulated anyway. Would that fawn have lived a full life or wound up punching a hole in someone's grille? Nobody knows.....but in all reality, the coyote wasn't doing anything wrong, it was just "being a coyote".

You will never have to worry about a "child" being a victim of the average coyote unless ya happen to have a child that has no human scent on it. A healthy uninjured coyote won't go near a human. That's one of the reason's they're still around.

There's no other animal on the planet that has been subjected to the pursuit that coyotes have in the hopes of exterminating them. Coyotes have been pursued since day one with guns, hounds, airplanes, traps, poison, and more with all human intentions of making the species extinct. But yet they have not only survived, but actually thrived. A very amazing animal when you stop and think about it. And yes, I'm an avid coyote hunter and student of coyote behaviour myself.

A coyote just made the news by grabbing a two year old child.News article infered we are violating the coyotes space.

The deer situation in Northern Va is outta control...they are freakin' everywhere. I saw one hit up in Tyson's Corner last week near the intersection of 7 and 495. The only trees in that area are in pots!
Between my farm and 95 on Rt 17 ( about 4 miles) there are at least 6 dead deer on the roadside

We live in southern Mn. and had have them around for many years now. Four years ago we lost 2 baby beef calves to them, and then trapped and got one. Now the beef cows come home to calve at night. The calves are OK once they get old enough to run off from the critter. We have a neighbor that hunts them with dogs during the winter and he usually gets between 30 and 40 each winter. The dogs are equiped with transmitters in the collars, once they chase one up, the first set of dogs tire the critter out, and then the owner catches up with the dogs and sets a new batch of dogs on the trail, that is the batch of dogs that get him, the coyote will run back and forth for 15-20 miles before the second batch of dogs get him........hope he gets them all!!

The DNR, the God of all natural things......so they think. Where do you think the Asian Lady Bettles came from, now they are releasing wingless wasps to do the job that the Asian lady beetles did not do.......supposedly to help us farmers do away with the soybean aphids..........don't get me started on the this off topic subject.

Coyotes moved into the area 35 years ago. Heavy predation on sheep, they will even enter a barn to grab lambs. Used to be groundhogs by the dozen in every hay field. Now it's event to see more than 1-2 ground hogs in a 50 acre field.
Cross breeding is resulting in coydogs that are larger and bolder. There's even a coydog on the nuclear site now.
There are coyotes living on the hatbour front in down town Toronto.
If it wasn't for my Border Collie the coyotes would have cleaned out all my chickens and turkeys.
I've shot 5 coyotes off the back deck of my house or the back yard.
This spring while planting wheat. I was surprised to see two coyotes in the tractor headlights only 30-40 yeards away.