What is eating the persimmons?

[misswired]

The large male is a blue calico color......would be a trophy mount.

No Harm, No Foul, No Shoot.....long as the coyotes stay in their place

 

[CQB27]

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.

 

[billwill]

See one shoot one.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

I recently saw a big Yote down at the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge.
I could have sworn he said- Got any Persimmons?

 

[misswired]

Yotes climbing trees here after fruit..

 

[tops]

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

 

[Harrison]

And here I though only possums climbed persimmon trees.

 

[Mike SC Hunter]

I eat them too when they ripe(orange and soft). They taste like sweet jam.

 

[misswired]

And here I though only possums climbed persimmon trees.

Gonna try again to orientate this pic of a coyote climbing the tree.

 

[tops]

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

 

[vt_shooter]

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.

 

[gregintenn]

I had no idea a coyote would eat persimmons. I do know the deer around here will gather under a tree and wait for them to fall.

 

[misswired]

I had no idea a coyote would eat persimmons. I do know the deer around here will gather under a tree and wait for them to fall.

Here's a yote leaving with a persimmon

 

[misswired]

And here I though only possums climbed persimmon trees.

Last nights pic of coyote in the persimmon tree

 

[Stevens]

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

 

[6518John]

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!

 

[smoothshooter]

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.

 

[misswired]

Relocated three cameras and knocked more persimmons on the ground. Holding back feeding yotes table scraps....may not wanna be that friendly . YET

 

[Protocall_Design]

What does that funny lookin' yote have in it's mouth in the 2nd pic?

 

[Protocall_Design]

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!

That doesn't look like any Stoner gun I've seen...

 

[misswired]

What does that funny lookin' yote have in it's mouth in the 2nd pic?

'6lb fetchin stik'

That's a white booted mountain feist objecting the use of his fetching stick to knock down persimmons

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Foxes are noted for their tree climbing.
Any of you guys get any pictures of them climbing your trees?

 

[redlevel]

Coyotes eat watermelons in the field. They eat peaches that fall on the ground. They will probably climb a peach tree, but I don't have first hand knowledge,

I will still shoot a yote under the right circumstances, but I'm not as hard on them as I used to be. I believe, in this area anyhow, that feral cats are the major predators of small game, and yotes eat a lot of feral cats.

 

[misswired]

Coyotes eat watermelons in the field. They eat peaches that fall on the ground. They will probably climb a peach tree, but I don't have first hand knowledge,

I will still shoot a yote under the right circumstances, but I'm not as hard on them as I used to be. I believe, in this area anyhow, that feral cats are the major predators of small game, and yotes eat a lot of feral cats.

Might shoot one myself.....meanwhile they feast...

 

[Golphin]

No need to shoot them if you don't care about having turkeys and other native animals and birds around. I don't let them off easy around my place.

 

[misswired]

Goin to the roadhouse.... gonna have a good time

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Miley; my Favorite Cyrus

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Doors:
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[Igiveup]

Around here, open season on the yotes. They devistate the deer, small game populations, as well as sometimes getting new calves. Between them and wolves, the yotes are not welcome. I don't know anyone who doesn't shoot them given the chance.