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.

RE: Coyotes, anybody else seen them?
 

I have seen alot more yotes and yote tracks this year. before I have seen them hear and there but this year there are alot more.

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I saw 1 coyote in the woods, no shoot. I also came on a dead fawn downed by coyotes.

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I have seen 6 yotes so far this season. I took a nice female on 11/25/05. I have seen alot of tracks recently in the fresh snow. The day after i took the female, I had 3 come by me. We have not seen alot of deer recently and Im beginning to think the yotes are the cause. I will be after them after deer season!
MIKE

RE: Coyotes, anybody else seen them?
 

Yep, I've seen two while hunting. Here is one of them:

RE: Coyotes, anybody else seen them?
 

i have seen alot of coyote tracks... but havent seen no coyotes

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Yep, seen my first one during bow season

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i hear them yipping now and then befor dark... im gunna hunt he basterds this year.;)

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Coyotes (and bears) are the reason why our deer herd is being decimated. I live in the country (in Catt county NY) and I know for a fact that bears and coyotes are taking deer regularly throughout the year... especially fawns. One night during a snowstorm last year I was in my driveway bringing firewood into my house. I had 3 deer walked up to within 20 steps of me before during around. When this happened, I thought, if I was a coyote, it'd be nothin' for me to run one of those deer down...even if to do it for the joy of it. In addition, I read an article that a coyote can run faster than a deer. How can a deer escape a hungry coyote. My friends in PA, it's not Alt destroying your deer herd (although, I believe he tried to), it is the predators!

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me too. i think these little critters take more fawns than we know about. it's about time the hunter became the hunted :)plus it will give me some clues on the local deer pop. in the off season.