Awesome and Sad trail cam pic

[Onestringer]

Awesome trail cam pic, that can't be set up.  Look closely at what the coyote is carrying in its mouth.

 

[Doc Nock]

Part of the life cycle... but still sad to see a predator take down a new life and prevent it from populating the area.

[Cherokee Scout]

what he is carrying?

[Danny Rowan]

Cannot really tell what he is carrying, could be a fawn?

[fnshtr]

Sure looks like a fawn to me. I can see dew claws and hooves.

I have a doe behind my house that has 3 fawns... twins are pretty typical around here, but triplets seem a bit rare. The doe looks VERY healthy too... unlike some that appear "skin and bone" due to nursing.

Cycle of life is right. For life requires another's death.

[KentuckyTJ]

Definitely a fawn.

 

[Thumper Dunker]

Cool picture. Fawn was most likely sick or something looks good sized. Might even been road kill or something or just slow. They have their place.

[Izzy]

Great pic. Thats what fawns are for in a yotes way of seeing things. They dont remind him of Bambi, just satisfy its drive to feed his young and carry on genetics.

We most definately need to shoot more coyotes.  Around here, the coyotes are outnumbering the deer.  I am starting to hate them.

[T Lail]

wildlife researchers set up cameras on coyote den summer of 2012....momma yote brought a fawn in 19 out of 30 days.......this was in Wilkes county NC......

[Panzer]

That's the way it,s supposed to work. We certainly don,t have a shortage of Whitetails in this country.

[nineworlds9]

Yeah, but its getting out of hand.  Florida is crawling with Yotes!!  Florida!!!  They are shoot on sight for me here far as Im concerned.  Heard them in the eve while out in the woods yipping.  Haven't seen one yet but found scat.  Thinking of getting some calls and going for them directly.

[TRAP]

It's s in his nature, that's his job.  Just like you feeding your family.  

When coyotes reach a certain population level there are checks and balances in nature such as sarcoptic mange to control overabundance.  

They get a bad rap but they are incredibly adaptive creatures. While humans were successfully eradicating just about everything else at the turn of the century coyote ranges expanded despite the use of explosives, poison, trapping, etc.

Doubt anything you can do is gonna have much impact on a coyote population. Killing one wildlife species just to protect another wildlife species is is an irresponsible use of of a resource.

Haying equipment kills a lot of fawns too but.....

Trap

[Longbowz]

Looks like it's time to do some coyote hunting.  Coyotes don't stop breading until all prey animals like deer are wiped out.  Where I live we used to have a fair population of deer until the coyotes started to take over.  Now there's hardly any deer and way too many coyotes.  I say shoot'm if you get the chance.

[Thumper Dunker]

I think they are pretty safe . If In had to bet on a coyote or a good deer hunter I would bet on the coyote.

[Cyclic-Rivers]

I think Izzy and Darryl hit the nail on the head.  That coyote is just doing what they are supposed to.  Cant blame him for that.

Its normal to hear of high fawn mortality rates in the spring.  I read just as many fawns die from health issues as they do with predators.  the neat part is, the predators will eat them too.

Its all part of  a beautiful cycle.  I dont feel I should hate the coyote just because I am Jealous of his hunting ability.

[DWT]

Coyotes are some of the most cunning escape artists and use way more reasoning than a dog. Ive hunted them every winter for about 15 yrs and I have killed bunches of them and at one time I hated them also but over time I realized they are as much a part of the landscape of the natural world as any other critter, even as much as a deer or rabbit. I thought we could wipe them out in the beginning bet have found it cant be done. We have killed as many as 66 of them in one winter and the following year it did not seem we had even put a dent in the population, I killed 4 in one day, and have had 3 doubles. We usually kill 35-60 and have for several years and there is always more the next year because if a area has everything they need more will just move in to take over the missing ones area. I have gone to giving some of them a pass as we hunt them and don't hate them like I once did they are beautiful animals in their winter hair and I have grown to respect their ability to survive, now if they just didn't smell so bad.

[Tim Finley]

From our game and fish dept. ,you need to kill 70% of the coyotes for 5 years in a row in order to check the population . I know 2 brothers that kill over 400 coyotes a year and hunt the same areas . Trapping and hunting cant control them only poison and ariel hunting.

[Panzer]

I like having them around. They are a natural part of the environment, and they serve a purpose. I spent most of my life living in Ohio and we had a lot of them around and I always seen plenty of Deer.

[jwhitetail]

TRAP X 2
I grew up with them out here in the west.  That little Yote is just doing his job... industrious, smart, observant and practical.  All of the things that I have tried to be as a hunter for 35 years.  

I have killed a few in my youth but anymore I just hunt the whitetails (like the coyote).

JW