I got nothing, Kenny [pics added]

[leper]

Been out maybe a dozen times the last wk or so. Apparently my timing is off. I'll be danged, haven't seen a thing Spoke with an acrege owner a few days ago as he passed by where I was parked. Near one of the den sites. He said he seen the male, female & all the pups together near that den site a few days prior.

Same guy, he lives 1-mile away from me, back along a timbered creekline. He told me he got a very large coyote on his trail cam, one night. I ask him if it was all brown in color? He couldn't tell as the pic was taken at night. Two miles South, two Winters ago. I seen one of the largest coyotes I've ever seen. It was paired up. It was all brown with a white underside. Looked the size of a female wolf at 1st & 2nd glance.

It also was the only all brown coyote I ever seen. A rarity to see. As I've seen many over the yrs.

[kennymill]

I was wondering how your sightings were going lately and now I know. Where do you suppose they went to? That coyote is one to mount if you happen to bag it.

I haven't been out coyote hunting for a while now, I took up ATV riding and been out in the Owyhee mountains twice a week riding. I have tagged on the GPS some possible locations to go hunt the dogs this fall winter.

Keep posting and share the photos everyone loves them.

Kenny

[leper]

Dang varmints, right when you think you have them patterned. They change.

As for the brown coyote. I had some long range pics of him & his mate. Old PC crashed some time back & I didn't get the pics transferred, before hand[lesson learned] The brown was 1/3 larger than her, in size. She was average size, I'd say she was low-mid 30's.

Don't break your neck on that wheeler.

[leper]

Drove by the 3rd den. These pups are around 7-8wks old. Last time I seen the fat female was March 29th.

[kennymill]

Youv'e done it again! They knew you were coming so they came out of the den to say hello to you.

More great photos!

Thanks.

[leper]

These pups are also heavily useing a field drive culvert. Down the gravel a little ways. Their den site has 1-entrance & only 1-exit. Spread apart 15' or so. Farmer told me, he has only seen 3 pups from this litter. Well, that is all I seen yesterday. There might be a few more?

3 pups? mighty small litter. Yet the female has denned there 3yrs in a row so far. I find her small litter abit odd.

[buckfynn]

Great pics Leper. They sure get big fast. How far away from them when you took their picture?

[leper]

Buckfyn, I stayed back 30' away & took all the pics. One pup walked over my way to within 15'. If you move very slow then stop, edging forward slowly. I've gotten to within 6' of a pup in the past.

[buckfynn]

Yep! I have used the same technique many time on a variety of critters. I even did that with big bull moose. I ended up getting around 25 feet of him. Still can't decide if I was being brave or stupid but at least I ended up getting away with it.

Take care and good luck on your fox pup adventures.

[leper]

I expect to get a couple more wks of viewing these litters. After that, they get pretty wary.

Interesting difference between the Reds & coyotes. Reds are prone to staying in hard shelter/[under ground] most of the day, 365 days a yr.
Whereas, coyotes tend to only use hard shelter. During pup rearing & harsh weather, mainly. Otherwise their outdoors in or near ground cover.
Roughly 10% of the time any given day during daytime hrs. Do I see the coyotes out on the open areas.