On TV a few nights ago, Night Hawk, I think, program, where they hunt coyotes with calls, from a platform on a pick up truck equipped with bank of powerful lights, they showed coyote activity, during the day, while a Farmer was cutting hay.
As the Farmer cut hay, he may have killed many rats, or he may have just made some of them more visable. Coyotes were every where following the mower, gulping down lots of big rats and mice.
They came back at night to hunt them with the light setup and had no problem in killing several coyotes at one time.
It is apparent, that killing all the coyotes is probably not a good thing. How many rats they got while the hay was tall, apparently was not many. Hard to bee quiet and sneak on mickey in tall grass. The coyotes serve a very useful purpose. They are controlling rodent populations in the hay fields of Texas as elsewhere as do bobcats. Rats multiply like..well very fast and besides eating foods we like spread deadly disease.
Here in the east coyotes are here now since the 60s and in big numbers since the eighties.
I think that thanks to the Mississippi River we were not taken over before by coyotes.
or eons Bars, Cougars, and Wolves, preyed on the few coyotes.
Now all those are gone and coyotes are the predominant predator species.
So much so that all the turkeys here seem to be gone.
They were close to the house two evenings ago.
I have figured out if I want the Hawks and Eagles back, I need to let the field opposite the house grow tall and let a bunch of ice take over. That is what they were feeding on.
Big tall trees on a hill overlooking it all and the water where they sat and swooped down on them.
When I last cut the field in Sept, I think a few places in the spring area had mice running out as the mower approached. I ran over several. But a couple on one patch looked like , to me a native and now rare, not rat but a type, of native rodent. I would have to go back looking for it on the TWRA site.
The Hunters went to a Fox Pro, brand of coyote call. Distress calls at first then coyote calls like little ones in distress and had numbers off coyotes come and be shot at one time.
They coyotes were not afraid o the farm machinery or Farmer. They had learned just like crows and hawks and eagles etc that the machinery turns out rodents or
bugs for the birds and rodents when plowing. Interesting that no Hawks were taking part in the feast. have they all bee poisoned out.
As the Farmer cut hay, he may have killed many rats, or he may have just made some of them more visable. Coyotes were every where following the mower, gulping down lots of big rats and mice.
They came back at night to hunt them with the light setup and had no problem in killing several coyotes at one time.
It is apparent, that killing all the coyotes is probably not a good thing. How many rats they got while the hay was tall, apparently was not many. Hard to bee quiet and sneak on mickey in tall grass. The coyotes serve a very useful purpose. They are controlling rodent populations in the hay fields of Texas as elsewhere as do bobcats. Rats multiply like..well very fast and besides eating foods we like spread deadly disease.
Here in the east coyotes are here now since the 60s and in big numbers since the eighties.
I think that thanks to the Mississippi River we were not taken over before by coyotes.
or eons Bars, Cougars, and Wolves, preyed on the few coyotes.
Now all those are gone and coyotes are the predominant predator species.
So much so that all the turkeys here seem to be gone.
They were close to the house two evenings ago.
I have figured out if I want the Hawks and Eagles back, I need to let the field opposite the house grow tall and let a bunch of ice take over. That is what they were feeding on.
Big tall trees on a hill overlooking it all and the water where they sat and swooped down on them.
When I last cut the field in Sept, I think a few places in the spring area had mice running out as the mower approached. I ran over several. But a couple on one patch looked like , to me a native and now rare, not rat but a type, of native rodent. I would have to go back looking for it on the TWRA site.
The Hunters went to a Fox Pro, brand of coyote call. Distress calls at first then coyote calls like little ones in distress and had numbers off coyotes come and be shot at one time.
They coyotes were not afraid o the farm machinery or Farmer. They had learned just like crows and hawks and eagles etc that the machinery turns out rodents or
bugs for the birds and rodents when plowing. Interesting that no Hawks were taking part in the feast. have they all bee poisoned out.