I knew there were coyotes on the hunt land.

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I kept seeing tracks and finding "droppings" on the roads thru the hunt property. After deer season I moved a camera to where I had seen some track on the road. Also baited it with a dead squirrel if you look hard enough.

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Went last night and set in stand with AR and my call out and saw nothing until dark:30. Time stamp on the images are midnight to about 4 am. I've got to get him to keep better hours than those.
 
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Nocturnal critters can be tough. I see more at dawn hunts than at evening hunts but it is tough sitting an hour or so before light gets to where you see them in the scope! Nice pic.
 
Nice pic. Reminds me gotta get out there soon. Ours here in the northeast are said to be a mix. Seen a couple good size ones lately. Use to be rare until the deer moved in years back.
 
the best way to get them is with an electronic call, they will come out in the day time we have killed probably 100 here in lonesome hollow,

in ky we can only use shotguns at night, but I have found that a treble kook in a limb with that bait on it will keep it there until daylight as well

I hate yotes!!!
 
Timely post for me. I just ordered up some traps, bait and lures to trap them using the "dirt hole" method. Youtube's got numerous video's on the method.
Neighbor turned me on to it. He's got 5 in the last two weeks.
I've been shooting them off my back deck for years. Never put a dent in the population.
 
Darn right....

srsmyth said:
Nice picture, looks kinda cold for your location. Did some of my cold air slip down there?
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Darn right it did. Before that though it was downright warm. It came on so fast and the area it covered was so huge I don't think animals had the ability to 'migrate' to a warmer clime. If iguanas were falling out of trees in FL, yeah, it gets pretty cold for us. Snow drives people nuts and the ice really wreaked wrecky havoc.
 
rburg said:
Well, this is a pretty good post. Someone, someplace has finally found a good use for a squirrel/tree rat.
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A buddy and I hunt them for fun, clean them and give them to those who want/need them. It's a win/win, except for the squirrels.
 
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I've never eaten squirrel but my Grandfather told me he did as a youngster and it was the best meat he'd ever eaten. Maybe he was just really hungry back then? Never could warm up to eating a rodent.
 
moosedog said:
I've been shooting them off my back deck for years. Never put a dent in the population.
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Maybe one of the wildlife biologists on here (BearBio?) can further explain the population dynamics involved, but it is my understanding that coyote populations respond to a decrease in their numbers (population density) by increasing the size of their litters and/or the number of litters they produce. So, culling is not a very effective strategy for very long.

I really hope for an effective population reduction strategy because these interlopers have wreaked absolute havoc here in the Blue Ridge with the bunny and especially, the fox, populations.

Out in South Dakota, I used to love to listen to them out on the prairie at night. But here, in Virginia where they don't belong, they are a nuisance and have proven to be extremely disruptive to native species and have caused some problems with attacks on young farm animals. Most of the farmers where I live have now put donkeys into their pastures as a means of protecting young calves, sheep, and goats, or at least, of sounding a warning that a carnivorous interloper is on the scene.
 
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Coyote population/size of litters is mainly determined by available food, meaning; when game is plentiful the litter size increases, when the pack grows and the food source becomes scarce, the litter size decreases.

The only effective means of controlling the coyote is through poison, 2nd best is trapping and for us callers and opportunist's, we aren't doing anything relative to controlling their population but some of us are just enjoying the outdoors hoping to call one in and if we live in the Northern climates, recoup our gas money and have a little left over after selling the coyote in the raw to a fur buyer.
 
Well I have heard yotes 2 out of the last 3 nights up here. The first time I head them was about 2 AM. Judging from what I heard the first night they got a "target" down. Last night (about midnight) just some yipping at a distance so do not know what if anything happened,

The lay of the land brings animals down off the mountain to the plateau I live on and we see deer often. Sometimes as many as 20 pass through the back of my property. They are following the stream down!
 
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Before the trail cam I seen fresh bear scat on my lawn while cutting it. Then I seen paw prints in my freshly tilled garden. It was a cub now he's 375/400lbs the last time I seen him.

I had no clue what animals are on my land at night. I got a trail cam for a gift. I have water shed land and it goes into the bottom land. The trail cam reviewed I have foxes, deer, raccoons, opossum, blackbear, and coyotes. I also have lynx, bobcat and mountain lions.

The foxes and coyotes are constantly going back and forth every 30 to 45 minutes. I guess they have a routine they follow. The fox showed up at 7am and it's every morning. The dog goes out at 7am to smell the property to see what's been around. One morning when I got up two of my tamed feral cats were up on a tree branch sitting. I guess the fox drove them up the tree.

I see more animals here in ct than on my property in vt.

On a summer night twice now I heard Bigfoot howls. Coming from the bottom land. Lots of woods/forest. One bfro bf report is near me.
Some nights I hear the Yates running the bottoms.

Right now the whole corn and cracked corn is out, with two deer feeder blocks from TSC. The deer are here every night.
 
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I laugh at those that balk at squirrel but will happily eat a lobster any day.

One is a mammal closely related to them, and a clean forest mammal that stays in the trees away from most pests most of the time.

The other is a bottom-dwelling, faeces eating insectoid arthropod that is a distant relative to the cockroach.

It's not like a forest squirrel is some nasty garbage city rat with diseases left and right, quite the contrary.
 
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