Ever heard of baiting coyotes with apples?

[bobcat]

Checked a camera today that was last checked 10 days ago. 14 days ago I had put a grocery bag full of apples there. First few days got almost nothing. Checking it today I didn't expect much. Surprisingly I had 774 pictures, 90% of which were coyotes eating my apples. The coyotes weren't a surprise, since I'd been getting pictures of the mama and the pups for a couple months now. But I didn't know how much time they'd spend hanging out eating apples. The camera was set for a 3 shot burst with a 30 second delay. Anyway here's some of the 'yotes...

[denali]

they will eat ears of corn in sweet corn fields some times, crazy critters

[whitetailslyr]

looks like you need to thin out a few bait stealing yotes. I have the same problem, only with damn porcupines

[Heredoggydoggy]

Over the years I've seen lots of coyote poop with apple peels in it, when hunting near orchards.  Guess that's why they are such good survivors--they'll eat anything.  Last year my buddy and I were following some coyote tracks after a fresh snow, and saw the tracks where one of the coyotes pooped, then turned around and ate his own poop!  Sort of like, "oops--I wasn't done with that yet!"   

[sebek556]

last year the wife had 5 yotes come in and steal a apple from the pile when she was in the tree stand. 

[bobcat]

Got another critter too, which looks to me like a bobcat, but of course it wasn't interested in apples so I didn't get very many pictures.

[bobcat]

And the deer did get a few apples, but not many...

[Huntbear]

Yotes will eat anything.....  First two I ever shot were eating cherries off the ground....

[carpsniperg2]

Yeah they will eat about everything. I had them eating pears and apples like mad the last few years.

[CedarPants]

Great pics!!!

I've witnessed yotes plenty of times at my place in Stevens county helping themselves to corn, grain, berries - and especially apples. They seem to be able to eek out an existence on whatever they can come across

[whitetailslyr]

I know what you mean, this dog ate some apples, took a nap, then got up and ate some more. I have a gold tip for him to eat if he comes back after sep 1.

[CAMPMEAT]

Can't get your pictures to open............hmmmmmm !

[h2ofowlr]

Every time we use apples in front of trail cams, we always get pictures coyotes eating the apples.

[buckfvr]

My lab and shorthair both eat apples, plums, pears, raspberries,and huckleberries faster than we can pick them.  DOgs of all kinds are omnivorous foragers.....

[dreamunelk]

Like bears they are omnivores.  In studies of diets berries (fruits) are a major part of their diet.  Been awhile but I am pretty sure that plants are the highest percent of their diet most of the year.  Although I think that has more to do with where they live and the habitat type.  I have a hard time believing that the plants that grow in western wa have much value to them in winter.  I do remember one study near rural areas where they found the house cat was number 1.