This darn wind could stop now.

[clint]

Got a phone call from my mom today saying that a tree had fell on our boat. I had it at her house with plans on putting it in her wood shed. But I had'nt had time to get it cleaned out and put in yet. I hope everybody else made out ok from this wind storm. The winds are still kicking hard here but not nearly as bad as last night. By 12:30am last night the power company said that 95 thousand people were without power. Tree's are still falling today.
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[Asa Lenon]

A big tree just missed falling on my deer blind by inches.  Glad I didn't have to build a new one before Saturday.  You get all that snow down there too Clint?  Got about 6" here this morning.  Ace

[clint]

Ace we only got about 2 inchs tops here. Travel about 12-14 miles north of us they got about 8 inchs. Lake affect for ya you never know what your going to get. Good luck with the deer hunting. Clint

[Asa Lenon]

Fun day today!  Got my 8 pt buck at 7:45 am, had him dressed and home in a half hour and back to the blind.  Some eagles were already eating the gut pile.  Shortly, a coyote appears.  He sniffs the air, looks everything over including the eagles and ravens for 25 straight minutes.  Then he proceeded slowly toward the guts but go nervous and backed off, traipsing back and forth  for another 15 minutes then disapears.  About a half hour and there he is way around on the other side traipsing back and forth. I seen him occasionally circleing the area for the rest of the day but he never did come in.  Does come and went through the area but didn't see any mor bucks.  Coyotes in this country are just generally just plain wary of any large baits until they have been there a long time.  Ace :grin:

[RdFx]

Ace the yotes here in WI dont go near  big baits ... Iknow of cow and calf carcasses that dont even get touched..... Sometimes in deep , deep snow then they dig down and go at it.... Yotes out west  sometimes will  have a cow  gone in a couple of days.... of course alot more yotes per mile i believe.

[Wackyquacker]

Ya know RdFx I've thought on the #s per section a number of times.  I wonder...I would venture a GUESS that there is on average 1 coyote per section in my country I doubt it would go to two  (the number I've heard for the lower Sanora desert in Az.  It seems to me that just are alot more ceitters per section in prime habitat like yours than in the west.  I don't know or even have an idea of coyote numbers in your country.

As for large baits, I wonder do you suppose it could be the closeness of the habitat that makes your coyotes nervous?  They can't see, uear or smell very many places for more than a 1/4 can they?  I'm not saying this is the case just throwin it out consideration.

[RdFx]

Ive taken  as many as 7 yotes in a section during a season but they could be  transients as the season progresses.   Yotes have no problem locating baits or big baits...... They listen and follow, ravens, crows, eagles and vultures here.   At times they will hit a bvr carcass same nite put out or within a few days.  Then again ive seen the bvr carcass dry up and  come spring maggots take over if not too dried out..  Now gut piles fm deer they  and fishers ect will pig out and sometimes gone by next day even with human scent , cigarrette butts  laying around guts.... Go figure..  I know you have more yotes than we do here but our yotes are definately bigger.  So far this yr my biggest yote has been a male at 48 #s

[clint]

Nice job on that buck Ace! Hunting has been slow around here. Not nearly as many deer on the buck pole as past years. Clint

[Wackyquacker]

I wasn't considering problems in locating the bait piles but rather pondering the idea that because your type country is "tight " that maybe the coyotes behavior is a bit more wary?  Also, are you certain that we have more coyotes than you on a per section basis?  The western trappers cover huge areas...I just don't know.

[RdFx]

Well i cant say personally if my yotes are more wary than yrs but trapping in Montana yotes  were easier and   caught them almost every day while here unless  you have a huge long line you have a week to 28 days before you link up again  with  yotes.  Im not running a long line  now as im still working but get up at 4am and check and then check more after work.   The way the yotes  came to sets  out west im inclined to believe the population was higher and  competition for food more also...... Here we dont have yotes  killing calves, or sheep  or eating on the big carcasses and out west you do which leads me to believe in more competition with higher population to fill there bellys

[Wackyquacker]

I can't argue those points.  It just seems that your habitat has a much greater potential carrying capacity than this country.  I think you are on to something in the hungry concept and competition.  On that same line of thought you have a lot more food, and easy food, for them to fill their bellies.  This may keep them out of trouble as you pointed out.  The carcass "avoidance" is still puzzling; free food is rarely turned down.