Coyote in my goose blind (graphic)

They would have to be VERY hungry to do that. Coyotes don't typically cannibalize. I've set lots of them out both skinned and not in very heavily trafficked coyote areas and NEVER seen one eaten. Only a couple of times have I even seen buzzards eat on them.

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a snake maybe? or disease.

Looks like a Chupacabra to me.

rc

Looks like a Chupacabra to me.

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lol

I was like "Oh THAT figures" (since I sat in that goose blind every day for a week and didn't see any deer).

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Coyote figured he'd try the same thing, only he got bored to death.

Be careful around it. It could have died from rabies and carrion eaters ate it. Coons carry pseudo rabies and coyotes eat them. By how clean the bones are I would think it was birds of some sort.

Might'be been one of those rare wild critters that simply get old. Mighta just thought your blind looked like a nice private spot for a nap and didn't wake up. Point is, animals die. It's one thing we can all count on.

Where do you live?

I see no mention of the region in your User Details?

Was it a pit blind a weak animal couldn't jump out of of tangled in the netting?

Rough or wet winters, or extended droughts and old coyotes result in things like this.

Mother nature can be real cruel, but thats just the way it is for all of us.
Sooner or later.

rc

With all of the firepower you have how can you have a coyote problem?

I suppose you've got the same problem I have....too much life and not enough time.

If you ever need a hand getting rid of them just give me a call. Never been able to hunt out your way.

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Could be if it is not on your property, someone else that shot or trapped the 'yote may have thrown in in the blind. I see stuff like that happening all the time on public land. Other dirtball hunters will take a dump, and/or throw garbage in other folks old permanent blinds outta spite, or just cause they can.

I'd rake the carcass and the top layer of dirt/leaves outta there and dump a bag of lime inside the blind. By next hunting season the ground inside there will be good and sweet.

Put some Vicks in your nose and go drag that mangy sucker outta there while its still cold! Why leave that thing to saturate the ground with his odor/sickness, then when you want to use it, you'll be afraid of getting something. Vicks is used by a lot of ME's that come on scene of deceased.

Trent,
I would have to clean that pond back out; it's very nice in the first picture. Make a small pool (like a little pond) upstream, then pipe that into the main pond. That will catch a lot of the silt and you'll just need to maintain it every year or so.

I think live yotes will eat dead yotes. There's not much around here that can drap a yote carcass other than another yote. I've left dead yotes and after about a week they'll typically be drug somewhere else.

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Think I'll wait for the flies to take a little more meat off of it this spring, before I do that. That carcass is RANK.

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Then you allow the spring rains to leach the stink and body fluids deeper into the ground and in a bigger area. The longer it sits there, the more the smell were permeate the netting and camo. From the looks of the carcass, most of the rank smell is probably already in/on the ground itself. Get it outta there and bury it somewhere else while it's still in one piece.

$10 says it was eaten by family members.

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1. Do not kiss your family members at the Easter get-together this year
2. Do not let your family members use your goose blind anymore
3. Use that $10 and get them some McDonald's gift certificates, or at least leave a bottle of catsup in the blind for them, along with a small tin of breath mints.

Mange

cannibal coyotes?

I've never seen coyotes cannibalize either, even on the skinned- out bodies i left in their areas to see if they would work for bait.

they'll eat a dog in a hurry though!

Survey it using adjacent property plats, register it at the courthouse, pay taxes on it and put a fence up.

Next yote I off, I'll put a trail came on it. GA's a long ways off, but I'll try to remember to put a bottle of ketchup nearby, just in case.

Trent said:

The "pond" is an inlet in a larger lake. There's 3 houses along the narrow channel - my two neighbors further up the inlet have had nice, lush backyards with a stream running through them for years. My back yard is still in the process of filling in.

My neighbor at the end, up the road, *did* dig the lake out about 20 years ago when this process started filling in his back yard. They dredged it back out to about 8' deep. Two weeks later a big thunderstorm rolled through and the entirety of his newly-constructed hillside slid spectacularly back to where it came from and filled it all back in.

No further attempts at dredging have been done.

Complicating issues, about 10 years ago the lake manager at the time lowered the lake level 3 feet (for some reason). That winter there was a hard freeze and ice shoved (what is now a sub-surface) ridge up on the back left edge of my property. This further slowed the creek feeding the lake at this end, allowing the deposit of all the sediment pretty much directly behind my house.

There's really no answer to the problem, other than at some point within the next few years I'll have one heck of a garden growing down there.

FYI, my deed says my property line extends 10' in to the lake, which no longer exists behind my house, so I'm claiming the land in the name of Trent.

(it adds about 2 acres to my property)

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Sounds like it may be doing what it was originally intended to do.....that is as a sediment pond to trap sediment before it enters the main lake body. Many man-made lakes do this as it keeps the main body of water from filling in by slowing down water laden with sediment and other contaminates such as field run-off, during times of heavy rains. Many times these small ponds were originally intended to be periodically dredged as they filled in. Then folks realized what contaminates were in the sediment. Nowadays, chances are that sediment is considered Toxic Waste and must be disposed of as such. Because of the cost of disposal and the hassle of even getting a permit to dredge, unless it is in a municipality jurisdiction, they are no longer taken care of. In the case of small ponds that were once created for fill for sub-divisions and road construction, getting permits to dredge is almost impossible because of the cost and liability involved along with the newer Wetland provisions. Liability may be the reason the Lake Manager lowered the water level by three feet. Often, when Dam licenses are renewed, the Corps of Engineers or other fed/state agencies determine what catastrophic effect the Dam going out might have. Depending on what they determine, and whats below the dam itself, recommendations regularly are made to lower the level of the water above the Dam to lessen the damage done. Sometimes this determination is done by the company insuring the Dam Owner. If the stream the feeds the pond is determined to be "Navigable Water", then any altering at all other than that done by or approved by the Corps of Engineers, is forbidden under Federal Laws. Even very small streams that are only navigable by canoe one day a year during spring runoff, many times are classified as "Navigable". 30 years ago no one cared. Folks dug ponds, Dammed streams and changed the course of a stream without so much as a second thought. Folks built boat docks and piers as big and as far out into the lake as they wanted, and could afford. Now in today's legal and environmental climate it's not that easy to do even when one is only trying to rehabilitate. To get a permit, you need to pay for an environmental impact study, and then go to the town/county board before going to whatever state agency is in charge of surface and groundwater. If you ain't got friends in high places you may as well stay home.