Hey, Hen, how's it going? I don't really know the question about mating, you might be able to find it on the web, and people around here surely know. As far as sign, I reckoned it'd be like other animals. Concentrations of scat, tracks, and anything else that shows they're in the area. If you find a lot of birds, rabbits and such that have been killed, it could be a coyote. Also, you could try to find their dens. That's about all I know, and may have something wrong. Most of what I've learned about coyotes is from people on here and from reading about them on the net. I've wanted to get into huntin' coyotes for a while, but other things get in the way. I was going to buy a gun for it, but if I don't manage that I guess I'll try to use my bow. What part of Ohio are you from? I'm from the Toledo area myself.

Brandan