Coyotes, anybody else seen them?
I hunted the whole week after the opening day at the Catskills. This year, as most of you guys, I saw just a few fresh deer tracks on the snow and in the majority of these tracks I saw coyote tracks right on top of them. Three days ago, I was going to my tree stand early in the morning, I saw 3 does and I heard coyotes howling within 100 yards away. To my surprise the deer were not alarmed from the coyotes. They did run away though (no high tail) within the next 5 minutes. It is the first time that I heard so many coyotes during my hunt and I believe that this has to do with the lower number of deer that we see in our area lately.