ORIGINAL: DougE
You can't even assume a predator actually killed the fawns.They could have easily died of natural causes.Read the fawn study journal in it's entirety and see how many fawns were taken backto a den.None were.Coyotes don't do that.
Coyotes kill deer but they have a much larger effect in areas of poor habitat and for a limited amount of time.Someone would have to prove to me that we have a rapidly expanding coyopte population.I'm willing to bet in these parts we have less today than we did 10 years ago.Coyotes are very susceptible to to a variety of canine diseases and have a very have mortality rate.
Dag gone Doug.I wish I had a way to prove to ya that our population of coyotes increased in the last ten years.If we made a bet that would be easy money.I can't show you what was there 10 years ago but I sure can show ya what is there today.
Little story,I was hunting away from camp the last weekend and came upon a buck head.Illegal.I kept walking and came across a highway of yote tracks.Looked more like a well worn deer trail.Then I came up on the deer that head belonged to.I assume some idiot shot an illegal buck and left him lay.About the only thing left was the hooves and bones.The yote tracks told the story.
They are there in numbers.The sign and vocals show us a big increase within the last ten years.