coyotes

[ditto1958]

Heard our local neighborhood pack singing, just the other night. Makes for a fun evening serenade.

NCG, are coyotes relatively new to the North Woods? We have them here now down in the Fox Valley, but I don't remember anyone ever talking about them here when I was a kid. They were something they had out west- and in the Roadrunner cartoons on Saturday mornings. I saw one in here broad daylight this past winter when I was on my way to the range. It was running around within spitting distance of the local high school.

[tarbe]

Ever since I saw a game camera pic of a coyote carrying a fawn in its jaws, I shoot every one I can.

I've called a few in with the dying rabbit call, but mostly they've been targets of opportunity.

[tarbe]

Heard our local neighborhood pack singing, just the other night. Makes for a fun evening serenade.

NCG, are coyotes relatively new to the North Woods? We have them here now down in the Fox Valley, but I don't remember anyone ever talking about them here when I was a kid. They were something they had out west- and in the Roadrunner cartoons on Saturday mornings. I saw one in here broad daylight this past winter when I was on my way to the range. It was running around within spitting distance of the local high school.

I grew up in Washington County Wisconsin in the 60s and early 70s and we did not have coyotes then...only fox.

When I moved to Eau Claire in the early 80s after having been out of state a while, I was surprised to learn there were coyotes there!

Maybe they were up in Eau Claire even back in the 60s and 70s...I don't know. But I killed my first coyote while bow hunting for deer, in October 1985 in Sawyer County. That was the first coyote I had ever seen or heard in Wisconsin.

[North Country Gal]

Heard our local neighborhood pack singing, just the other night. Makes for a fun evening serenade.

NCG, are coyotes relatively new to the North Woods? We have them here now down in the Fox Valley, but I don't remember anyone ever talking about them here when I was a kid. They were something they had out west- and in the Roadrunner cartoons on Saturday mornings. I saw one in here broad daylight this past winter when I was on my way to the range. It was running around within spitting distance of the local high school.

Actually, yes. Coyotes began spreading north and east back in the 60s and 70s. Not originally native to northern Wisconsin and the New England area. Big news, back then. Made quite a stir. Biologists also noticed that they increased in size when they adapted to our northern forest areas. Coyotes, up here, are much larger than those scrawny desert coyotes.

More recently, another newcomer to the north woods is the Turkey. A few were stocked up here, experimentally, not long, ago. Biologists did not expect them to take hold and survive our northern winters, but the Turkeys fooled them. They're doing, well. Had a flock wander though our yard, a few weeks, back.

[Sir Henry]

Our desert coyotes are huge as they eat the wheat and potato crops. Back in the early 70's coyote pelts were the rage and fetched up to $100 each. I enjoy seeing and hearing them. They usually mate for life and I've always respected them for it.

I like to refer to them as k-ay-HO-tee instead of ki-OAT.

[The Wiz]

A lot of urban coyotes in The Chicago metro area. Will take small dogs, etc. However, the average life expectation is just over a year. Mostly disease and cars.

[Mgderf]

Just took a large male coyote the other day.
I had two come by at a dead run not 20 feet in front of my ground hide (just a hole dug into the side of a hill) while I was deer hunting.
Hit him with a 225gr Powerbelt bullet in front of 2 pellets (100grs) of IMR White Hots.

Rolled him down the hill quite nicely.
There are many more where he came from.

[Mistered]

Thick as thieves in Oregon - especially Eastern. Shoot on sight as vermin. Ditto in the value of hides in the 70's as SIr Henry said but furs are out of style and not much value. Not near as many people hunting them as there used to be but I know a few that still do it for something to do in the winter as we do not have to go far to do it. Heck I may be getting out and give it a try (again - after not doing it for many years)

[Sir Henry]

I saw two yotes driving out to Wisconsin from Washington State.

[CT_Shooter]

I saw two yotes driving out to Wisconsin from Washington State.

Were they driving a RoadRunner?

[roddy]

We have a lot of them here and can hear them yipping and yapping pretty much any night.
We got a few inches of snow a couple of nights ago, and I noticed some tracks in the yard the next morning. I hopped on the sled and followed them back towards the woods yesterday...couldn't believe how many had been back there.
They grow big here, and bold as well. My wife and I had one run out of a corn field on our trail not 10 yards in front of us this fall. It stopped and just stood there looking at us while we walked towards it, then turned and sauntered ahead and off into the brush...no hurry. This one was about the size of a Siberian Husky, but I've seen them larger. If one is that brave, I don't think I would want to run into a few of them...

[JEBar]

the following was printed in a local paper today (12-15-17) ..... reports like this only deepen concerns surrounding coyotes

"A rabid coyote found in a rural area near Bahama (about 35 miles NW of Raleigh, NC) is Durham County’s sixth case of animal rabies in 2017, the State Laboratory of Public Health has confirmed.

No known human contact has been identified, according to the Durham County Department of Public Health. Previously, the county has discovered four skunks and one raccoon to be rabid, said Khali Gallman, communications and public relations manager for the Durham County Department of Public Health. This rabies incident is the first involving a coyote."

Read more here: http://www.heraldsun.com/news/local/cou ... ylink=cpy

[Sir Henry]

I saw two yotes driving out to Wisconsin from Washington State.

Were they driving a RoadRunner? [/quote

No, one was driving TX Gun Runners old Mustang with the Coyote engine.

[BrokenolMarine]

Our favorite fishing is done on a large black angus cattle farm. The owner lives out of state and his "farm manager" does as little as possible to keep from getting booted out of the little house on the back of the property. There are four ponds on the farm, two have trophy bass in them, and they kill the flies and frogs at dusk. We are the only non family allowed to fish the farm, and respect the gift we have been given.

At dusk one evening, a large yote came out of the brush line and started around the pond toward us. He was coming at us, head up and eyes locked. I reached in the truck and blew the horn... he never slowed. I stopped him about forty yards out. The owner loses a couple calves ever year to coyotes and feral dogs, I have written permission to put them down. His black angus are show winners.

We also shoot nutria on the farm. They are like a cross between a rat and a ferrett. They are doing major damage to the dams and banks around the ponds, and their burrows can injure the cattle. Nutria have become a major problem in several areas, especially New Orleans.

[Mistered]

This one was about the size of a Siberian Husky, but I've seen them larger.

Thats a BIG coyote - where are you?

[clovishound]

Our favorite fishing is done on a large black angus cattle farm. The owner lives out of state and his "farm manager" does as little as possible to keep from getting booted out of the little house on the back of the property. There are four ponds on the farm, two have trophy bass in them, and they kill the flies and frogs at dusk. We are the only non family allowed to fish the farm, and respect the gift we have been given.

At dusk one evening, a large yote came out of the brush line and started around the pond toward us. He was coming at us, head up and eyes locked. I reached in the truck and blew the horn... he never slowed. I stopped him about forty yards out. The owner loses a couple calves ever year to coyotes and feral dogs, I have written permission to put them down. His black angus are show winners.

We also shoot nutria on the farm. They are like a cross between a rat and a ferrett. They are doing major damage to the dams and banks around the ponds, and their burrows can injure the cattle. Nutria have become a major problem in several areas, especially New Orleans.

Nutria are supposed to be good eating.

[BrokenolMarine]

People eat rats too. In the Corps, they always told us the nasty stuff tasted "just like chicken,"LOL".
I would always quip, "So... why not eat a chicken...?"
My guys always got a laugh out of it.

[JEBar]

Nutria are supposed to be good eating.

they are also supposed to be full of nutriants

[North Country Gal]

Nutria are supposed to be good eating.

they are also supposed to be full of nutriants

Love it!

[roddy]

This one was about the size of a Siberian Husky, but I've seen them larger.

Thats a BIG coyote - where are you?

We are in a rural area on the North shore of Lake Ontario. I understand they grow to similar size in Northern New York and Michigan. There was a study done a while back because of their size here. It was thought at the time that they may not be coyotes at all, but a relative of the Red Wolf of the eastern U.S..
The study showed them to actually be a hybrid mix of coyote and the Eastern Timber (Algonquin) Wolf. Some people now refer to them as coywolves or woyotes. A few years back, our neighbor lost a 500lb bull calf to them one night.

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