We have a water plant in a remote area with a high fence and plenty of grass within that attracts geese for their nesting season. They raise the young and then the whole flock usually leaves by mid July.
The nesting season was a bust this year as the operator told me that Coyotes got in and raided all the nest and got all the eggs.
Raccoons, I tell him. He can verify though through tracks & scat and dug at areas under the fence.
This area has a patch of woods behind it that is connected to two drainages that are dotted with groves and are at slightly less than right angles which makes it easy to keep the wind in one's favor and also places one's back toward the plant.
I took Seven yotes out of this patch alone working both sides last Nov-Dec. We did warm up quite abit in Jan and had a bunch of mud which pretty much shut me down at that location or I probably would have done much better. At any rate, It Appears That I Didn't Do Well Enough.
I have mixed feelings about this. The Canada Geese have expanded to the extend of "nesting" on golf courses and it had been just a very few years that they started nesting at the water plant.
Seems to be alot more of them in new locations.
Question is: Were this you, would you head out and whack a few of them and let them lay. Or (in my practice) leave them alone for the winter fur that can be harvested?
I half suspect that I might be dealing with an elderly breeding pair that really need some easy hunting but I do acknowledge that the yote is an opportunist pure & simple.
If this line of thought is true, will they teach the pup's to get the easy pickings from chickens to house pets in or at the edge of town?
Thanks
