Interesting podcast about what coyotes eat...hint, lots of fawn in the spring/summer. ,
Weren't those studies in areas where there was extremely poor fawning habitat?I've seen studies in the Southeast where 100% of coyote diet was deer in the summer (probably all of that being fawns).
Yup. Just goes to show the importance of having good fawning cover.Weren't those studies in areas where there was extremely poor fawning habitat?
We've seen the sameYup. Just goes to show the importance of having good fawning cover.
Over the last decade or so, the fawn recruitment on my place - like many across the Southeast - has been terrible. We would run 20-35% most years (2.0 to 3.5 surviving fawns per 10 adult does). Since we've cut a lot of timber and produce a huge amount of regrowth cover, last year it jumped up to around 70%. That's a HUGE difference.