coyote question

[Friend]

Interesting thread.

[Running Buck]

I have watched them hunt chipmunks in the rocks. I know they eat beavers, the area I was trapping this past winter had a few that got caught on the ice. Pretty smart critters.

[Ron LaClair]

When all the people are gone, there will still be coyotes

   

[GRINCH]

Coyotes are survivors thats a fact,They will eat anything to survive.

[JimB]

I wonder if there isn't a den site in the area.It is that time and a lot of tracks sounds right.It doesn't take a coyote long to cover a couple miles for food.They can't stand other coyotes anywhere near the den site at that time so an area with less hunting opportunities might be picked for a reason.

[SEMO_HUNTER]

One word....Anything.
Coyotes will eat just about anything they can find, period. If there's a pasture nearby they will eat poop, yes cow poop, horse poop, or any other kind of poop. They will eat any fruit that drops at certain times of the year, persimmons is a delicacy, apples, pears, wild plums, ect. They will eat it. Roots, grubs, worms, insects, certain plants and grasses......it's all on the menu.
They will eat road kill, possums, skunks, cats, birds, snakes, turtles, ect., ect., ect.
I've even seen them walk the river bank looking for frogs, snakes, crawfish, minnows, turtles, or whatever else they could find.
That's how they manage to survive and thrive, they will eat absolutely anything they have to in order to survive.
Mice are actually a well balanced meal, rabbits are a delicacy when the can get them, and a deer or turkey is a full blown feast.
Kinda like cake and ice cream is to us.

[Jethro21]

Coyotes are survivors for sure, there is a thread on a separate site I go to where a guy shot a 2 legged coyote who was chasing a deer. The front leg was half gone, healed over but had 2 bones sticking out, the back leg was 3/4 gone but healed over. Tough animals

[LKH]

Its the wrong time of the year, but when available, they eat a lot of fruit and other vegetation.  I've seen a lot of coyote scat with juniper berries.  Try eating them.

They will eat almost anything. Killed an old bitch once that had a slab bacon rind whole inside her gut.  It was about 8" x 11".  Imagine swallowing that.

[grouseshooter002]

I recall a story about a coyote that was making a living in Central Park, NYC, NY by decimating the cat population. Now that's one smart coyote.

I also agree with Ron LaClair that they will be around a lot longer than civilization.

Grouse

[ishoot4thrills]

Yes, they have a varied diet for sure.

But I'm not so sure that they use a den to live in but use dens just to raise their young, like foxes do. I know that red foxes sleep out in the middle of open fields in the winter instead of using a den to live in. I would bet that coyotes do the same.

[LKH]

They do sleep in the open.  Used to walk the snow covered wheat fields south of Moscow, ID and they would be curled up on the lee side near the top of hills.  Real trick to get around sideways and have a decent shot.

[Mr.Vic]

Been living in town for three years and the second year we had a ton of cats roaming the yard at night. Last four months they got thinned down, not by the bow but by the yotes. Last winter we had them coming into town for the feast. And late one night as i sat out smoking the pipe i watched one come across the school play ground looking for the plump White and Black cat who liked my bench so well. Hope he tasted good, cause he is gone!I welcomed them for that.