ORIGINAL: germain
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.
big gang of my friends drove the GREENLICK area in kettle creek.
they told me they sawlots of coyote tracks.
they are on all the trails here in my hunting area do to heavy snow we had in last month in clinton county.
i saw 4 in 1 group ,male was hunting away from mother and 2 cubs.
i had my muzzleloader or 1 of them would have been history.
then that mother that called to others walking out path in dark.
do to lack of deer , i excite myself with things like that.
after season is over i will be putting out my trailcam and maybe get some picks of things.
i still have picture of coyotes attacking doe and her fawn but there is 8 second lapse in picture, it shows the does ears go up ,then 8 seconds later, 2 coyotes in spot on camera.
funny, i have fox on camera under legs of deer,i have rabbits, racoons,possums, squirreals,birds.
but when COYOTE comes, deer leave, never a coyote under the legs of deer.