collapse

Advertisement


Author Topic: I've seen some $hit, I'll tell ya.  (Read 5555 times)

Offline ivarhusa

  • Ivar Husa
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Scout
  • ****
  • Join Date: Dec 2008
  • Posts: 487
  • Location: Richland, WA
  • Believing is easier than thinking.
    • Ivar's Family Web Pages
Re: I've seen some $hit, I'll tell ya.
« Reply #15 on: December 13, 2010, 09:11:21 AM »
I lean toward explanations that involve commercially cultivated crops.  I believe, now, that grape seeds would be too large.  That each scat was so homogeneously FULL of these seeds tells me that the full meal was from one source. This suggested plenitude, not a mix of "seeds and mice" for example, that might have been casually foraged.

I took a look at a garden variety (literally) juniper bush's seeds, and I can't imaging a critter being able to harvest so many such berries in one sitting (*censored*ting?). There are only two seeds per berry, and the berries are pretty small and distributed around the bush somewhat sparely.  Again, this is in our garden, and not looking at wild plants, so I could be wrong here.
Live all you can: It’s a mistake not to.

Offline BIGINNER

  • Washington For Wildlife
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Aug 2009
  • Posts: 3840
Re: I've seen some $hit, I'll tell ya.
« Reply #16 on: December 13, 2010, 09:29:39 AM »
It almost sounds like the one with seeds could be coon?   

i was gonna say the same thing, 

Offline brew

  • Non-Hunting Topics
  • Trade Count: (+17)
  • Sourdough
  • *****
  • Join Date: May 2010
  • Posts: 1886
  • Location: yelm
Re: I've seen some $hit, I'll tell ya.
« Reply #17 on: December 18, 2010, 02:43:31 PM »
bought a place about a year ago that has apple, pear and cherries growing in the backyard along with some grapes (not sure of the kind) have seen/shot yotes in the backyard "buffeting" on them all...don't think it matters what they eat as long as it fills their belly...crop depredation !
beer---it's whats for dinner

Offline Backstrap

  • Non-Hunting Topics
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Scout
  • ****
  • Join Date: Jul 2009
  • Posts: 307
  • Location: Auburn, WA
Re: I've seen some $hit, I'll tell ya.
« Reply #18 on: December 19, 2010, 08:27:03 PM »
I had a coyote pile in my back yard that was mostly seed. Most likely the seeds were from a bird feeder, because there were a couple sunflower seeds in it. Coyotes will eat anything...
Step once, look twice...

Offline high country

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Old Salt
  • ******
  • Join Date: May 2007
  • Posts: 5133
Re: I've seen some $hit, I'll tell ya.
« Reply #19 on: December 19, 2010, 08:32:19 PM »
seen a coyote eat a watemelon on the vine....funny thing to watch. I had to settle down in order to kill him

 


* Advertisement

* Recent Topics

2027 Pink Run Destroyed by Boss .300 winmag
[Today at 07:23:05 AM]


Big changes to skamania county boat launching by Magnum_Willys
[Today at 04:30:37 AM]


Question about Hancock Timber Co Eastside by hunter399
[Today at 12:14:09 AM]


Update repair complete Who knows Stihl messed up and cooked my 044 by Westside88
[Yesterday at 09:34:53 PM]


F150 Tire/Wheel Guys by elksnout
[Yesterday at 08:55:57 PM]


Furbearer research project, samples requested, by Humptulips
[Yesterday at 08:41:11 PM]


GO 2025 15th Annual Hunting-Washington Christmas Gift Exchange by wadu1
[Yesterday at 06:25:21 PM]


Coyote hunting GMU 501 by metlhead
[Yesterday at 05:17:39 PM]


Building out duck boat by Badhabit
[Yesterday at 05:09:00 PM]


WA Bucket List….Mule Deer Permit by blindluck
[Yesterday at 04:30:23 PM]


Curvy Damascus Utility Fighter by rainshadow1
[Yesterday at 11:58:55 AM]


The Rack by Mtnwalker
[Yesterday at 09:45:02 AM]

SimplePortal 2.3.7 © 2008-2025, SimplePortal