UPDATE!caught on cam, coyote or fox or??? UPDATE w/ PIC Post #132!!!!!

[drdoolittle]

noodleroo, I was just starting to walk my dogs down our dirt road one early evening, and spotted a coyote standing out in the middle of the road. I took the dogs back home, and quickly went back down the road. The coyote was still close, only in the freshly plowed field. He was still not too far from me, so I called "Here, boy....come here." He started walking across the field, and stopped, turned around, sat down and just watched me! I then started to walk across the field towards him, and he got up and started away again, got a little distance, and stopped, turned around, sat down and watched me! He was not that scared at all----plus, whatever he was headed toward when he was trying to cross the road, was on the opposite side from where he was. The more I tried to get close to him, the farther he went across the field and towards the woods. I know, some of you think I was crazy for even trying to get cose to a coyote, but I really just wanted to get a better look at him.

 

[drdoolittle]

Oh, the coyotes around here are pretty good-size, too. Much bigger than a fox.

 

[noodleroo]

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When I was a little girl, my daddy used to 'make up' bedtime stories for me. We lived in the country and always heard the coyotes in the evenings. Daddy told me 'baby coyote' stories, I think so I wouldn't be afraid of them. I guess it worked; I have a love/hate relationship with them. To this day, I love to hear them. But I've seen a pack of them take down a full grown whitetail doe in broad daylight and my DH drove up just in time to see one run off with one of my chickens in its mouth about a month ago. I've also seen what they can do to a newborn calf.

If you want to attract them, just mow or plow a field; they look for mice and bugs that have been injured or dislocated. That's probably what yours was doing the evening you watched him. They have their place and purpose; just not close to my chickens or calves....

 

[deerman]

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The OP pic is a red fox ?????????? Where is the white.

Think its grey mayb a mouse in a coyote fur coat.

 

[ma2babygurl13]

Ok I haven't caught it on cam yet again.... haven't seen a site of him. We found some older poo out further in the field. We originally put the cam up to try to see if any deer were coming through. Haven't had any deer (if it is a coyote this is probably why) My first thought when I saw the picture was a coyote, my DH thought Fox, my Father thought coyote.... so I was trying to get a thought from the "public" obviously it is the same as in my family lol! The field it is in is extremely grown up with grasses/weeds/wildflowers, with a few mower paths going through it. there is no dirt and the ground is sooo dry even if there was I wouldn't be able to get a good track.... the poo had some rabbit fur and a piece of bone in it. About the size of a med/large dog pile. It is a decent distance from my chickens and turkeys, haven't had any problems with anything digging in... did have a coon get at the chickens about a week ago again no diggin pulled em through the fencing and we have caught and dispatched 2 coons since. Is there anything I can "bait" it with to get it back on cam? We can only get our cam from what we have figured out it will only take a picture every 15 seconds. the cam we have is a wildgame innovations IR4, with the infared flash.

 

[BloominOrchid]

I KNOW!!! Its a Dingo!

I think Coyote too

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

I think Coyote too.


Also wanted to second the poster that posted about 50lb coyotes... She was in Cali and so am I and we have some HUGE coyotes out here, I've seen them almost as big as my GSD.

 

[MMPoultryFarms]

I am just curious to ask If you can Pull up 1 million pictures of coyotes on the internet by simply google Ohio Coyotes, and None of these pictures show you a coyote with there tail held in that Position that stout and that high in the air Even Turning to run. better yet if you just google coyote pictures. and the 2,990,000 pictures there dont show you a coyote with there tails up at that angle then at what point will you finally realize Coyotes dont run with there tails up, there not animated in flight, There is the same internet on here that we all use that shows the same thing repetably for each of us who type the same thing in the search engine. everyone I hear keeps saying in my experience. how on earth is it that almost all of you have seen a coyote with its tail held High with 0 photo's to back this theory, you really should be trying to take pics of all these mythical beasts you speak of so you can be rich or something. Sigh let me see a coyote running with his tail cocked high and abroad and rest assured its national geographics at 10 on the discovery channel for me.

 

[Woodcutterron]

Well one thing I'd like to point out is that position of it's tail simply isn't a valid indicator,
heheheh. This is a photograph, not a video, folks. It's a moment frozen in time. Be it a Dog, Coyote, Fox or . . .Chupacabra ( I love it, lol) the tail could pretty much be anywhere, so using tail position as any sort of indicator is about as useful as using a Ouija board.

The 'pattern' of the blur demonstrates the animal was altering it's direction at the moment the photo was taken, and dogs, foxes, Coyotes and I'll assume Chupacabras all generally increase the animation of tail movement during direction changes under speed or acceleration.

Again, if this were a video clip, tail position might be a useful indicator, but hey . . . it's a snapshot in time. Tail position is useless as an indication of species relative to the "mystery critters" activity in the photo. I also had no problem googling plenty of clips showing coyotes with their tails high, their tails low, swinging to the left, to the right, etc. Particularly the videos that show them running away or chasing down prey in a non-linear path. Most of the photos are of Coyotes standing around. This animal wasn't just standing there, looks like he was beginning to accelerate and was either at the beginning or more likely near the end of a rapid change in direction. I'm still going with Coyote or the neighbors dog, heheh.

One question: Any tracks? The mentioned size of the Scat also sounds like Coyote.

 

[Woodcutterron]

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Well, I say that because I have seen tons of coyotes in real life . . . . didn't need to google it. But I went ahead and did just what ya said, I googled "Ohio Coyotes" and right on the google search page, in the first four images, was a pic of a coyote with his tail held at nearly the same relative elevation of the coyote in the original image.