Originally Posted by ol_mike
Originally Posted by Rock Chuck
If a coyote finds a clutch of young pheasants that can't fly yet, it'll get them all.

Bobcats too - read a while back fish&game somewhere[?] followed a collared bobcat that followed a mother turkey and poults unable to fly yet . Bobcat killed every baby turkey and the mother turkey too .

Dale there's some good stuff on youtube about 'nest predators' coyote fox bobcat coon skunk possum all meander around looking for nest to rob .
It takes an extensive amount of work to curtail them then others move in to fill the void .
That's why i shoot every one of them every chance i get .


Originally Posted by rockinbbar
Not near as hard on them as all the hawks and eagles are.

Fact ..

Back in the 70's when i was kid - farmers shot every hawk they saw and we never ran out of hawks like the lefties stories go .


Riding a bicycle across Texas this past June I didn’t see a single hawk between Mason TX and Seminole, five turkey vultures total. Maybe 2 - 300 miles.

Saw a schidtload of lubber grasshoppers and rank roadkill tho.

"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744