Eastern Coyotes Passing Through

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gerryg

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One of the things I have been working on is researching Eastern Coyotes and their interaction with humans and farm properties. I have a couple of active sites I'm studying using trail cams, hair snares and audio recorders.

This was taken on Monday morning

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Here's a few days of activity on a trail that goes past one of my cams. gerry
 
Nice ! The only Music I hear when I see these Critters is the Singing of my Fat Barrel Savage .223 :D
 
Very nice, we have lots of fox on our acreage in the Caribou. One scruffy little female will come within 10 ft of us if we are quiet and stay seated.
An old guy with his own floatplane across from us on the water who lives in the states half the year is feeding them turkey necks.
Dummy almost lost a finger handfeeding, he tosses them now. Not the right thing to do but try to tell him that.
Plus side is I should be able to get good pics this year up close. She can't weigh more than 17 to 20lbs.

We had huge coyotes on the farm in Saskatchewan. Everything there is big to handle the winters. Best mule and whitetail hunting around, lots of boone and crockett from there.
 
My trail camera will arrive next week ! Lots of things 'go bump in the night' and I'd like to get photos. Deer, bear, racoons,skunks, possums , etc.
 
Thanks for comments guys. These Eastern Coyotes or Coywolves as some are calling them now have really established themselves quickly on the north side of the great lakes. Not like wolves and not like coyotes they are truly a new species with their own way of doing things, gerry
 
In NY state coydogs and coywolves are very rare according to DNA studies .The coywolves are found near the Canadian border. Coyotes can reach 70 lbs !!
 
mete said:
In NY state coydogs and coywolves are very rare according to DNA studies .The coywolves are found near the Canadian border. Coyotes can reach 70 lbs !!
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I killed one in PA that was around 70, was feasting on the lambs at the farm. A large male that looked more like a German Shephard than a Coyote in size. He and a few others were so brazen they'd try to take lambs and sheep near the barn in the middle of the day. I never saw anything like it. I tied up a medium bodied lamb out in the field near a tree and within 10min's I had him and three others tear out accross the field after it. I managed to nab just the big one. After that they werent as brazen. This was two years back. I have since killed many of em but it seems they moved off our hill onto another one, still hear em all the time though.

I have seen a few of our Columbia Rams slaughtered and those are big ole boys. It gives me no doubt it would be a hell of a task to take on a single large coyote let alone a few.
 
These eastern Coyotes are very common in my area. As they are larger they eat deer...and as there are a lot of deer in our area the coywolf Eastern's have not been causing any problems... 50 miles to the east though there have been a couple of incidents with cats and small dogs.

They're very smart, social and avoid humans whenever possible. This makes it very difficult to photograph them. It took four months to get Blackie on film even though he had been seen in the distance. Where coyotes run 20 - 40 pounds these ones are between 40 and 80.

here's a track cast of my 67 pound golden beside a track cast of one of the coyotes in the video. gerry
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gerry
 
These have been spotted about 2,000 feet from my place.

It's cool to hear them howl/yip on a Summer's night with the bedroom window open.
 
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