We have a healthy population of reds and gray foxes around here. When you see more coyote sign, you see fewer fox.

My local farmers actually prefer to see coyotes, because they are more successful at killing woodchuck than foxes are.

Obviously woodchucks can really mess up a field of beans

Ted, RGS tells me that when they do large radio transmitter studies of adult grouse, at least half are killed by avian predators. That’s mostly in the context of Hunter impact additive or compensatory, but nevertheless, when they find a carcass after a mortality trigger, it’s about a 50-50 chance that the sign is the death came from another bird.

Last edited by ClapperZapper; 09/25/25 09:32 PM.
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