Camden Commentary: Has anyone spotted a coyote hereabouts yet?

Sunday, March 29, 2009

Has anyone spotted a coyote hereabouts yet?

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9 comments:

Anonymous said...: Jay,

They are all over camden county. I have killed several at my hunting club.; March 31, 2009 at 9:10 AM
Jay Moreno said...: Interesting.

I'm kind of surprised that after living here 15.5 years I haven't at least seen one as road kill, if not a live one.; March 31, 2009 at 12:30 PM
Anonymous said...: There are plenty of them at the North End. A couple of years ago chanel 4 news did a story on them when they got to close to neighborhoods with children. They circle a yard and do their howling to call out your pets then attack. It is a scary sound they make. Most of the time they do it at night. They have attacked horses, chickens and rabbits that are in pens in our neck of the woods. Some of the neighborhood pets have been attacked and killed.; March 31, 2009 at 2:05 PM
Anonymous said...: Jay,

I have seen them several times in the county. Primarily 40 West and out highway 110 back towards Woodbine. I know a few other hunting club's that have seen several as well. Our club take's them out, as they will decimate a deer herd. They also take out the turkey populations.; March 31, 2009 at 3:12 PM
Jay Moreno said...: When you refer to them taking down deer, you are talking about fawns, right?; March 31, 2009 at 6:24 PM
Anonymous said...: No, They are pack animals and will take down an adult deer. I am pretty sure they probably have a harder time taking down a buck. His horn's are probably a pretty good deterrent. These animals are very smart, and a group of them is very dangerous.; March 31, 2009 at 6:43 PM
Pollyanna said...: One of my co-workers lives in Woodbine and said they have coyotes around their place all the time.; March 31, 2009 at 8:28 PM
Anonymous said...: No, They will take down a full grown deer, though they usually take yearling animals first, which are about half the size. I hunt right here in Kingsland and we have several on our lease. I have seen a Florida panther several times too. Several years ago we even had a florida panther in the Super 8 parking lot. The more we encroach on them, the more we will see them around us.; April 1, 2009 at 7:54 AM
Jay Moreno said...: I know they wil occassionally hunt in packs where their population density is quite high - like out west. I wonder, though,if the population density hereabouts has reached that point yet?

They also thrive hunting smaller game individually - a fact which facilitates the spread of just a few solitary "pioneers" into new territory.

This puts me in mind of the spread of the armadillo back int he early 70's. I used to travel down this way from Savannah fairly often on business. I remember the first time I saw an armadillo as road kill on Hwy 17 around Kingsland. By remembering where I had seen the northernmost carcass on my last trip, then noting the northernmost one on my next trip, I was able to track their fairly rapid northward progression.

So far, I haven't seen any coyote road kill, but I'll be on the lookout.; April 1, 2009 at 8:39 AM