Learned something new about coyotes

[MHWASH]

They like apples. Took me a few minutes to figure it out as I watched them, but they were waiting for the apples to fall off the tree, then eating them. I shot this small female while she was chomping on a frozen Apple.

[carpsniperg2]

Yes indeed they will clean them up, more so when its cold but they have very opportunistic.

[jdb]

I frequently use an apple in distress call while hunting coyotes.  In all seriousness I hunt near orchards a lot and they eat most fruits. And judging from their scat they'll travel miles to eat them.

[predatorpro]

I frequently use an apple in distress call while hunting coyotes.  In all seriousness I hunt near orchards a lot and they eat most fruits. And judging from their scat they'll travel miles to eat them.

Pear in distress also works good in the right area

[bobcat]

I have lots of trail cam photos of coyotes eating apples that I put out for deer or elk. One location was apparently near a den. All summer I had the mother and 4 pups visiting the apple like every day.

[heronblu]

Coyotes love fruit! They gorge on berries in the summer, and apples and plums in the fall. I lead animal tracking forays with my club Cascadia Naturalist Association and I will often use a coyote scat filled with fruit as a trick question for my students (everyone says bear initially).

[HUNTINCOUPLE]

Somebody PM Bearmanrick and see if he stocks these Fruit In Distress calls? I think he's been holding out on all of us........

[Motorjosh]

I had a yellow lab that would climb into trees to eat the fruit, pretty funny site to see.

[Reidus]

Coyotes will eat about anything.

[AWS]

I've even seen scat full of carrots.

[Sitka_Blacktail]

I was anchored up in Alaska once cooking breakfast, waiting for a gillnet opener on the Copper River Delta when I happened to glance out at a nearby sand bar and saw a coyote sniffing then gobbling down an apple core. This sand bar was about a mile long and 100 yards wide at low tide and much smaller at high tide. To get to it he had to swim over a half mile at low tide (or over two miles at high tide) to another sand island then swim swim another quarter mile to the island he was on. I don't think it was the apple core that attracted him though. Coyotes and bears regularly swim out to the barrier islands and feed on seagulls and goose chicks as it's a major breeding area. But seeing the coyote eating the apple core was surprising.

[Eric M]

2 different years, two different locations

[Trapper John]

Coyotes love fruit, apples, cherries, plums, etc......and in the summer "watermelon" and even cantaloupe
I helped on a coyote study back in 1989, in Seattle / Bellevue area.
They will also raid your vegetable garden too.

You'll love this..................2% of the coyotes diet in this area is mice and rats and 30% is:    "house cats"   
JC   

[huntingbaldguy]

I have pics of them taking apples off my bait piles in broad daylight.