What is eating the persimmons?

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I have a persimmon tree in my yard up here on top of Lavender Mountain, planted long before I got here. It's a yote buffet! So far the last 6 years or so they have stayed in their lane, so I have stayed in mine too. But I'm always ready.
 
Last year I put out apples for the deer and a camera. Every night a pack of coyotes would come in and eat apples. Only saw one during the day. He won't do that again. I don't have livestock but neighbors that have livestock complain about them. Larry
 
Before the beer virus the gun club I belong too had a meal on Thur. and every Thur. one of the desserts was Persimmon pudding. Some of the desserts varied but the Persimmon pudding was every week. Larry
 
I recently saw a big Yote down at the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge.
I could have sworn he said- Got any Persimmons?
It was over 15 years ago that I last went to Bosque de Alache to take photos. Every day a coyote would come to a duck pond at the far end and grab a duck - got some nice shoots of the coyote with a duck in its mouth. The 'yot just trotted past me, maybe 15 feet away, with the duck, totally indifferent to a human being there. Thousands of ducks there, it didn't make a dent, and maybe by grabbing ducks it was leaving other stuff alone.
 
Around here they even get in to the sweet corn patches and pull down the stalks to get to the ears which they chew the kernels off. Real omnivore pests. Lots of shooters in my rural area so we don't see them often, but, about 10 years ago one snatched a neighbors small dog from their yard.
Steve W
 
Everyone thinks the good lord-and I think Mr. Stoner— designed the .223/5.56 to shoot NVA across the Pacific. But it was actually to shoot coyotes from sea to shining sea here at home!
 

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Last year I put out apples for the deer and a camera. Every night a pack of coyotes would come in and eat apples. Only saw one during the day. He won't do that again. I don't have livestock but neighbors that have livestock complain about them. Larry

A friend of mine has a pear tree in his yard that is a coyote magnet. He has seen as many as 5 coyotes in the same group eating the fallen pears at night multiple times. Hasn't been able to get a shot at any of them yet.
 
Relocated three cameras and knocked more persimmons on the ground. Holding back feeding yotes table scraps....may not wanna be that friendly ;). YET:)
 

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