interesting coyote in NY!

[Magnum]

Interesting google search and some web site links thought might be of interest to some:)

 http://www.nycoyote.org/

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=coyotes+in+new+york&aq=3&oq=coyotes+in+n&aqi=g10

http://www.cals.cornell.edu/cals/public/comm/pubs/calsconnect/features/nys-coyote-study.htm

[shadow]

It's no surprise that the Yotes are hitting the street's to forage for food, those street's were once prime beautiful forest. The more that people push into the Yotes home the more that they push back and adapt to hunting in the street's and yards. Ed

[geewhiz380]

so true instead ofpeople cleaning after themselves.the yotes even adapted to human smell and r not afraid cause people r feeding them when i worked as a parks officer in the city of ny i gave people warning after warning until i use to keep my mouth shut and just ask for identification and issue them summons cause u cannot feed any animal in a city park or state park that how they adapt to the comfort of people especially squirrels and the mess they leave ,i guess thats why we r having a problem in my aunts neighborhood now i know what to do cause im more worried then they r ,now i have the right number to reach and im going to call them cause we need help and kil;lin anit the answer but when u r angry on what can u do u usually resort to means of violence especially when the elderly and children r involve and i thank magnum for reaching out to me 2 thumbs up magnum very useful info for me and anyone else with problems like mine .......jorge

[longislandhunter]

If I sit out on the deck on my summer place up in Delaware County in the Catskills I can hear the yotes howling up on the mountain.....   sends a chill down your spine but at the same time it's beautiful to hear...    

Jeff

[Bobber]

A DEC biologist friend of ours said that there were 30,00 coyotes killed in western and central NY last season. I've  been trapping for over forty years , and can remember when there were no coyotes here . I saw my first one in the late seventies while hunting deer behind our farm. They are a terrible disease vector in regards to our domestic canines, and have eliminated the red fox in many areas. They will kill a fox everytime as they can easily run them down. They will do the same to small hunting dogs also. The biggest dog I've caught so far weighed 51 lbs. They will kill anything they can catch, are a challenge to catch, and require a lot of time to do so. It takes a lot of ground and gas to run a trapline for them. They take special traps and are hard to hold. They stink, are hard to put up, and aren't worth jack on the fur end. I wish they never expanded  their range. That said, I have great respect for the little wolves. There's a saying that goes like this: A old rancher said that at  the end of the world  there would be just two things left. One would be a coyote, and the other a Magpie, and that Magpie had better watch his ass!

[airiscool]

Every morning of deer season I used to see a line of turkeys going single file across a hay field that is next to my tree stand. As the turkey pupulation grew here back in the 90's, so did the yote population shortly there after.

 The last turkey I saw there was in 2000. It was just a scattering of a lot of feathers that looked like the turkey had blown up on the spot !!! No bones, blood, or guts - just all the feathers.

Next year I was at a trap shoot on a friends land. He said he gave permission to a couple of local kids to hunt yotes in his woods after deer season. By Spring they had gotten 20 from the woods on his side of a hill.

Another friend has lost alot of barn cats and two pet dogs to yotes.

Paul.