I noticed that this year and last year there was no sign of coyotes. The prior years you heard the coyotes at night howling especially after sunset. 3 years ago me and my friend were bow hunting the last day. As soon as the sun started to set we heard the coyotes start howling from all sides of us. We climbed down and packed out treestands. They were less then 100 yards from us and kept howling. From the time we left the tree stands till we got out of the woods the howling never got anymore distant. Everyone says that coyotes are afraid of people but im not saying we were stalked but the howls never got anymore distant from our departure. The past 2 years deer populations had a drastic decline along with rabbit along with coyotes. I'm gonna experiment with some coyote hunting this winter to see what is or isnt out there.