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My huntng partner had a fellow out to look over his trees and advise him on dealing with Emerald Ash Borers (too expense to do anything about). The fellow said that he had a trail cam overlooking a coyote den. The parents had brought 40 fawns to the den.

If they knew about it, they were complicit in that.

Afraid I don't have patience for coyote huggers.

Around here there are not enough of them to affect the mortality rate of fawns. We have a LOT more killed by vehicles than coyotes.

I'm not a hugger, but they simply don't do much damage here so I give them pass at times. Around the house no, and if the numbers get up no.

Love to watch them hunt though if I'm not needing to kill em.

They take much more game than you think - rabbits. quail, and many other ground - nesters. Deer, elk, and domestic pets. Calves, sheep goats, and other livestock.
Coyotes are a scourge that will never be eliminated, but need to be kept in check.

40!

A friend here in Mississippi did the same last year, set a trail cam up over a coyote den & recorded 23 dead fawns being brought to the den.

They're hell on fawns, there's no doubt about that. Any coyote I see is dead if I can manage it.

Here on our ranch in south Texas, we know coyotes kill about 40% of our fawn crop every year and coyotes also get about 30% of our quail nests and chicks, they also get a lot of turkey nests and chicks. coyotes do a lot of damage to our wild life. we trap and shoot over 300 coyotes a year. RIO7

I live in the NC mountains, way way back in the woods. Coyotes are not indigenous to this area.
I have learned, from this site, and others, that coyotes are bad news.
Not only for fawns, I have pet cats and dogs and I have learned that coyotes love to eat family pets.
So I have "Shoot on sight" orders on coyotes.

Rarely if ever see one. I have heard on a half-dozen nights, coyotes howling late at night. It is an eerie, and beautiful sound of the wild, the high pitched howling.

I have seen only one coyote up here in 20 years. I was taking my dogs for a walk on my own driveway, my mutt Sparky was about 200 feet out in front. Went out of sight around a curve in the road.
Suddenly, back here came Sparky at full speed. Ten feet behind him was a coyote.
When the coyote saw me, I was about 50 feet away. That coyote turned around so fast, it was like a magician's trick. He did a 180 and was gone!

I didn't have a gun with me, but to have killed that coyote I would have needed a semi auto 12 gauge locked and loaded and ready to go, could have gotten a couple of shots off and probably would have killed him
They are wily bastards! The woods are very thick up here and a 70 yard shot on my property is a really long shot.

Fawns are on the ground already? Here in Missouri they typically aren't born until mid-May through June. Coyote pups are just now being born here. Your friend must be further south of my Ozark's. At any rate, no doubt coyotes are fawn killers.

A couple winters ago we had a lot of coyotes around here. Saw very few fawns in the summer. Even had them killing and eating fawns near the house. We would look in the pasture and see a red smear. Sure enough a dead fawn.

Then a government trapper moved hear. Last winter between Jan and May he killed over 500 coyotes. Now we see fawns or yearlings rather. Coyotes don't wake us up anymore. Yeah, they can do a lot of damage.

I believe that this dealt with footage from a year ago.