bigbendmarine
5 year old buck +
Free to good OR bad home... 5 yote pups. Semi-joking aside, know the conversation of yote coloration has come up in a past thread or two so thought I would share vision I awoke to this past week.
Looked out my bedroom window at dawn and could see litter of yote pups playing. Filmed them best I could with limited light (low-light is kryptonite to the fixed lens mega-zoom camera I use though I LOVE it in good light). Based on past observations / tons of game cam hits I would put our tan to black color ratio somewhere between 60 tan / 40 black to 50 / 50. So imagine my surprise at seeing the litter of pups having 4 black to a 1 lone tan.
I've always felt a bit ambivalent to our local yote population... witnessed them really start popping out of the woodworks around fawn drop season but have had no shortage of fawn survival in the past and only seen the yotes on cameras with rats, squirrels, and other small critters. Afraid that wasn't the case this go round... if pay close attention to the video you'll see the pups throwing something around starting around the 18 second mark. Not being able to make out what it was while filming, I walked the area later in the morning and sadly found the back half of an extremely young / small fawn (looked to be only a few days old). Thankfully have several other fawns past a month old alive and well. I'd noticed recently one doe was still carrying a good bit later than the rest. Guess she paid the price for having the fawn after the yotes had already been on the hunt for weeks, and with a yote mom eager to feed her young.
Other interesting observation is at the very end... I didn't hear the alert / call that the pups evidently did, but sure obvious something got their attention right quick like.
Looked out my bedroom window at dawn and could see litter of yote pups playing. Filmed them best I could with limited light (low-light is kryptonite to the fixed lens mega-zoom camera I use though I LOVE it in good light). Based on past observations / tons of game cam hits I would put our tan to black color ratio somewhere between 60 tan / 40 black to 50 / 50. So imagine my surprise at seeing the litter of pups having 4 black to a 1 lone tan.
I've always felt a bit ambivalent to our local yote population... witnessed them really start popping out of the woodworks around fawn drop season but have had no shortage of fawn survival in the past and only seen the yotes on cameras with rats, squirrels, and other small critters. Afraid that wasn't the case this go round... if pay close attention to the video you'll see the pups throwing something around starting around the 18 second mark. Not being able to make out what it was while filming, I walked the area later in the morning and sadly found the back half of an extremely young / small fawn (looked to be only a few days old). Thankfully have several other fawns past a month old alive and well. I'd noticed recently one doe was still carrying a good bit later than the rest. Guess she paid the price for having the fawn after the yotes had already been on the hunt for weeks, and with a yote mom eager to feed her young.
Other interesting observation is at the very end... I didn't hear the alert / call that the pups evidently did, but sure obvious something got their attention right quick like.
