Yes, they are harder on livestock with the limited food. When you have lambs and not much other food they come to the lambs. On a normal year with plenty of other food you can get the ones that are killing and then have a break from killing but in years with little prey base they seem to just keep moving into the lambs and not wait till fall when they are training pups to kill or the fall dispersal. The yearling female had her right back leg missing from the first joint down from the hip, so I think that the adults that were older were helping her survive. I have over the years seen some amazing things done by coyotes. Yes, they start to get pretty smelly within a couple of hours in weather like this, it's part of the job that isn't always that good but at least I'm out and about doing it again. I got told thank you again for coming out and giving them a hand with them. He told me how much he had missed me being around and kind of helping keep an extra eye on things as well. We hit 100 today with 15 mph wind it will sure dry us out fast. I'm pretty much a fan of from 60 to 75 degrees being my most favorite temperature but if it was like that all of the time there would be way too many people. I hope we don't get thunderstorms with the amount of grass we have and the way it is starting to dry out.
Ramblings and Such From Hunting Coyote
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It is supposed to hit 100 6 days in a row this week with 80% humidity. I should be up visiting the northwest
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I'm not so sure about the northwest they are having some fires there. But that 100 degrees and 80 percent humidity is bad news for sure, people die in that weather!!!!!! You all take care in the heat and smoky conditions wherever you are. Stay hydrated and be careful of the exertion! When I was younger and working in high temperatures with high humidity, they had us taking salt tablets just before I got out, they decided that taking the salt wasn't such a good idea. I remember our cloths would be wet all the time and when you took them off to let them dry out, they would turn white from all of the salt coming out of you in your sweat, and my blood pressure was pretty high, you for sure need to replace the electrolytes that you lose by sweating though but there are better ways now then what we used to do.
That's what we are getting too! Miserable!
Walt and I went out and fixed some fence and did some road work yesterday. This is one of the roads that I travel to set snares in the fence line as they have coyotes in the pasture on the other side of the fence. I will do some howling in the next week or so as we are supposed to get some cooler weather and I want to get the adults first then the pups.
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A few more rocks and this will stop washing before it takes the road out. It will take me a couple of miles to go around if it washes out several pounds of prevention goes a long way at times. It helps me and the rancher for me to take the time to do things like this and I know it is appreciated by them. Once I get more rocks in it the dirt will fill in with time and weather .
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In about 1986 I got asked to come out and locate some coyotes for the helicopter. I got out there where I met the rancher we set up and I howled, the coyotes answered right away. He called the chopper and got it coming. Not a coyote to be found when it got there. I told them I would be back in a couple of days. We met again and they answered again I found them in my binoculars and watched them, he called the helicopter and as soon as it could be heard by them, they started running toward a pine ridge. Again, no coyotes were taken. So, I asked him how many times they had tried for theses coyotes with the chopper, oh maybe 8 or 10 times. I then asked him if I could try a new approach, he said well at this time we are losing lambs and we need to do something. So, I asked if I could set up the fences with some snares, he said yes, then I told him I would set them up and in a couple of days get in touch with him. I got it all set up that day and the next morning I had a really old male coyote that I took to where I had told them I would leave them. I got more snares put out then called to meet him again and howl the coyotes again the next morning. We met and I got them to talk again, he called the chopper it came in flew and got one pup. I asked him to run the snares with me. We ran them and I had 5 coyotes in my snares. It was a trial for me I figured they were running from the chopper and if I had all of the crawl unders filled with snares I should catch one or two. That's when I figured out to do the aircraft smart ones that way and over the years since it has worked well for me and the ranchers not so much the coyotes though. This is a pup from this year I think she is the last one in this pasture but since they were flown hard and smart to the plane, I set my snares up and have taken four this week two old ones the male and female and another pup. The snares are hung now for the plane to fly the pasture again and see what happens. She ran from me and hit the snare this morning while Walt and I were driving up the fence line. It's always exciting to see one hit the snare and reach the end of the cable.
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These are a couple of the endangered Wyoming toads I saw this morning, at around 6000 feet elevation. I screwed up one time when I was younger and told where there was a falcon pair nesting the biologists messed around it so much that they abandoned it and two eggs. I will never tell where they are as with the otters and black footed ferrets I've seen; I will enjoy seeing them now and then and let them be undisturbed. I'm a slow learner not a no learner, I hope.
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He didn't come out very clear but if you look at his ears, they are six inches long and his horns are at least six inches longer. He's marking his area and will be getting his does gathered soon. The red fox kits are starting to disperse now I've seen a couple of them in the last two weeks.
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