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<blockquote data-quote="DSheetz" data-source="post: 2497148" data-attributes="member: 91783"><p>Over the years I have noticed that the coyote tend to find something in an area that they like generation after generation . I have taken dens out of an area and the next year there will be another pair denning in the same area . A few times I have taken pups out of the same hole in a rock pile more then one year in a row . That is one reason that I tried not to destroy the den hole and to remove all of the traces of my being there from it . It takes time and walking most of the time to figure out where they are denned so if you are careful and make notes of where they denned this year it saves you a lot of time and effort in the future . There was a company called Geo mapping that I found when I was at a three day training one year . They could take your GPS readings and make a satellite picture with them marked on it for you . So one fall when I had some slack time I went around the biggest ranch marked all of the boundry lines and all of the dens I had taken over the years . They had three different parcels of land separated by several miles close to 70,000 acres in all . So then when I sent the readings in I ended up with three maps with every thing marked on them an X with an F or a C marked the dens . I knew where the dens were and that there were areas that the coyote denned and other areas where the fox denned seldom did the fox and coyote den in the same areas . It was impressive for me to be able to see the dens and their relationship to the travel routes , food bases , and watering areas . I then could see the relationship of one area to another area that they liked and new ones would come into year after year . So for the casual hunter if you have had sucess at this stand site last year you can try that site this year or next year and figure that you will stand a good chance of sucess there again during the same time of the year . I have also noticed that so much depends on where the water is even for the prey animals and the live stock but the young of the predators may not be as close to the water as you might think it depends a lot on ease of access to the water not necessarily close proximity to it . Where you have a stream , river , lake or stock pond , you will find an area that the animals will come to it to drink . They will use one side over the rest one trail over another is used they tend to come out of one draw over the others . They may all be used but one gets more travel then the others when you look at the whole lay of the land you can find the reason for this . After a while of studying this you will start to put together the reason for this then when you go to a new area you just seem to have a feel for where these areas are just by having seen it in the past and learning what it is that the animals are looking for in the better places to call home . Like we may look at the proximity to schools , stores ect. when we buy a home when we have young children but once we have raised them we will look for different reasons to buy a home , the animals will do the same type of home shopping under the changes that occur in their lives , it's just under a more condensed time frame . Twelve months time for them verse several years for humans .</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DSheetz, post: 2497148, member: 91783"] Over the years I have noticed that the coyote tend to find something in an area that they like generation after generation . I have taken dens out of an area and the next year there will be another pair denning in the same area . A few times I have taken pups out of the same hole in a rock pile more then one year in a row . That is one reason that I tried not to destroy the den hole and to remove all of the traces of my being there from it . It takes time and walking most of the time to figure out where they are denned so if you are careful and make notes of where they denned this year it saves you a lot of time and effort in the future . There was a company called Geo mapping that I found when I was at a three day training one year . They could take your GPS readings and make a satellite picture with them marked on it for you . So one fall when I had some slack time I went around the biggest ranch marked all of the boundry lines and all of the dens I had taken over the years . They had three different parcels of land separated by several miles close to 70,000 acres in all . So then when I sent the readings in I ended up with three maps with every thing marked on them an X with an F or a C marked the dens . I knew where the dens were and that there were areas that the coyote denned and other areas where the fox denned seldom did the fox and coyote den in the same areas . It was impressive for me to be able to see the dens and their relationship to the travel routes , food bases , and watering areas . I then could see the relationship of one area to another area that they liked and new ones would come into year after year . So for the casual hunter if you have had sucess at this stand site last year you can try that site this year or next year and figure that you will stand a good chance of sucess there again during the same time of the year . I have also noticed that so much depends on where the water is even for the prey animals and the live stock but the young of the predators may not be as close to the water as you might think it depends a lot on ease of access to the water not necessarily close proximity to it . Where you have a stream , river , lake or stock pond , you will find an area that the animals will come to it to drink . They will use one side over the rest one trail over another is used they tend to come out of one draw over the others . They may all be used but one gets more travel then the others when you look at the whole lay of the land you can find the reason for this . After a while of studying this you will start to put together the reason for this then when you go to a new area you just seem to have a feel for where these areas are just by having seen it in the past and learning what it is that the animals are looking for in the better places to call home . Like we may look at the proximity to schools , stores ect. when we buy a home when we have young children but once we have raised them we will look for different reasons to buy a home , the animals will do the same type of home shopping under the changes that occur in their lives , it's just under a more condensed time frame . Twelve months time for them verse several years for humans . [/QUOTE]
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