Pretty Big Yote

[phil@thesidehill]

I usually get 5-10 coyote pics a year on my property...so in that regard i'm pretty lucky. I did get a pic of yote cruising thru my plot about 10 days...nothing huge. Then today's card pull netting this big yote with a short tail...possibly broke it/tore it off somehow?








for comparison here is a big grey fox in the same spot.

 

[Native Hunter]

That fox is smart. He came a day before the yote!:)

 

[chummer]

You will be able to keep track of him with that tail. I don't buy into the fox around means no Yotes. I had a pair of fox around all year and lots of Yotes around. I got a lot of pictures of them in the same plot the same day, sometimes only 30 minutes apart.

 

[phil@thesidehill]

You will be able to keep track of him with that tail. I don't buy into the fox around means no Yotes. I had a pair of fox around all year and lots of Yotes around. I got a lot of pictures of them in the same plot the same day, sometimes only 30 minutes apart.

yeah...this grey and a smaller one are regulars on my property....about 4 yrs ago i had pair with a litter that was around all summer. I also get an ocassional red. And as you can see i get yotes too. I also get bobcats pretty regularly.

If history repeats...i probably wont ever get any pics of this yote again...which is fine by me!

 

[dipper]

it is coming to an end of the coyote rut. A 34 pound yote right now is 40 pounds in the fall.

 

[Native Hunter]

My yotes are all migrating to Wisconsin to get away from the weather down here.:D

 

[bueller]

You will be able to keep track of him with that tail. I don't buy into the fox around means no Yotes. I had a pair of fox around all year and lots of Yotes around. I got a lot of pictures of them in the same plot the same day, sometimes only 30 minutes apart.

I used to get fox photos and would commonly see them in person on my property. This was years ago before the coyote population seemed to explode in the area overnight. We no longer see any red fox. We do still get an occasional grey fox on cam though.

 

[Native Hunter]

I used to get fox photos and would commonly see them in person on my property. This was years ago before the coyote population seemed to explode in the area overnight. We no longer see any red fox. We do still get an occasional grey fox on cam though.

Pic below was about a year ago, and I probably haven't had 5 pics of a fox since then. I get bobcats and yotes all the time.

 

[phil@thesidehill]

I get grey fox pics the most, yotes and bobcat kinda oscillate back and forth, and I get the least amount of reds.

 

[phil@thesidehill]

it is coming to an end of the coyote rut. A 34 pound yote right now is 40 pounds in the fall.

Not sure which subspecies of yotes you have in Wisconsin but Eastern coyotes generally have lifelong mates. Young males being dispersed from their natal range may seek out estrous females....but otherwise most breeding is done between mated pairs.

 

[phil@thesidehill]

My yotes are all migrating to Wisconsin to get away from the weather down here.:D

That's a pretty healthy looking critter...your old man taking a break? Lol

 

[Native Hunter]

That's a pretty healthy looking critter...your old man taking a break? Lol

LOL, he's holding off until we do the mowing soon. The grass is so high you can't get the safety off before they move back into cover. He hunted the open field that bordered my place and got two coming across it, but they wised up after that and only move where you can't see them. Best I can tell there are only three left, but that's three too many in my book.:D The one shown below is the one I would like to get the most (if he don't die from high blood pressure first). He's been well fed apparently.

 

[dipper]

Not sure which subspecies of yotes you have in Wisconsin but Eastern coyotes generally have lifelong mates. Young males being dispersed from their natal range may seek out estrous females....but otherwise most breeding is done between mated pairs.

That's warm and fuzzy for the back of a hallmark card, but I was in the middle of a coyote orgy last weekend.

 

[phil@thesidehill]

That's warm and fuzzy for the back of a hallmark card, but I was in the middle of a coyote orgy last weekend.

Maybe for whatever sub species you are dealing with. Easterns are NOT the same animal. they are a coyote/wolf hybrid and all the research has shown not just physiological distinctions but behavioral distinctions. You may have encountered several young males vying for an unpaired estrus female or young female setting out of her familial pack's territory as her mother prepares for breeding and the upcoming litter.

Either way there are several plausible explanations for this "orgy" you claim to have witnessed other than a "coyote rut".

I havent really spent much time hunting yotes in the last few years, but the best calling we had this time of year was challenging the head honcho on his turf. Anything that resembled females and or pups was largely ignored. Males would want to fight a potential suitor to his hot lady, but he was not leaving her for some other chick or the kids.

 

[dipper]

Your Way too analytical, they are breeding. coyotes don't obviously have a rut like deer do, I was just have some fun with words.

 

[chummer]

These two were around all fall, often just ahead or behind a pair of reds. I would love to get into coyote hunting to take them out. They are a couple weeks away from having their way with any deer that are left.

 

[phil@thesidehill]

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These two were around all fall, often just ahead or behind a pair of reds. I would love to get into coyote hunting to take them out. They are a couple weeks away from having their way with any deer that are left.

Do the yotes get much hunting pressure in your neck of the woods chummer? If not....it's makes calling them a lot easier.

 

[chummer]

There is a group that hunts them with dogs in the winter until the snow gets to deep. They usually get between 25-30. Last year with the early snow that stayed forever they only got 4. This should have been a great year for them. There was very manageable snow until this month so I can't wait to see how they did. No one calls them in our area, to my knowledge.