Hunting Washington Forum
Community => Photo & Video => Topic started by: bobcat on August 18, 2012, 07:46:09 PM
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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...
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they will eat ears of corn in sweet corn fields some times, crazy critters
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looks like you need to thin out a few bait stealing yotes. I have the same problem, only with damn porcupines
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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!" :chuckle: :puke:
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last year the wife had 5 yotes come in and steal a apple from the pile when she was in the tree stand. :dunno:
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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.
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And the deer did get a few apples, but not many...
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Yotes will eat anything..... First two I ever shot were eating cherries off the ground....
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Yeah they will eat about everything. I had them eating pears and apples like mad the last few years.
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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
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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. :chuckle:
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Can't get your pictures to open............hmmmmmm !
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Every time we use apples in front of trail cams, we always get pictures coyotes eating the apples.
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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.....
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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.
