Audio was taken over the winter off my back deck, which faces a bowl and the back of a hill a couple hundred feet in elevation on a chunk of conservation land. I've seen them in the back a few times in late afternoon, but not often. I do hear them at night fairly regularly and catch them on trail cams when I put them out. Are these ones on a kill, perhaps, or not necessarily? They sure were carrying on that night.
That's awesome. I have them all around me in the country but never thought to record them. If I go out to take a piss at 2 am there's a good chance I'll hear them.
When I normally hear coyotes, one does the plaintive howl at the moon type thing and one or two others often sound off from nearby places. This time they were definitely together in a pack and sounded to me to be much more excited than what I assume is a normal, 'hey, any of you fellers out there tonight?'
I'm surrounded by coyotes. I think they do that near whatever den they are currently using as kind of a territorial proclamation. Right now they are very territorial in staking an area against other canines. Whelping will begin soon and they will go silent for a few months.
When I was we working with the PD. I got a call from a homeowner about a injured dog near his residence. It was on the outskirts of town in a rural area. Got to the house. Homeowner came running to the car wearing flip flops and shorts and flashlight . "It's behind the house".
I got out of the car. Heard a coyote howling. He said "you hear it,that's it,it sounds like it's in pain". I told him that's a coyote and that's his mating call, you better get in the house, or he is going to have his way with you. He was from the big city and had no idea about these things. He kind of looked like the postal worker on the Seinfeld show. He ran back to the house.
I'm surrounded by coyotes. I think they do that near whatever den they are currently using as kind of a territorial proclamation. Right now they are very territorial in staking an area against other canines. Whelping will begin soon and they will go silent for a few months.
Hmm. OK, that makes sense. What is 'near' in your usage, please? I'm pretty certain that if there was a den on our side of the hill, I'd know about it, as our pair of labs would for sure be investigating any coyote den smells up close, as they run around back there.
There are a couple of bold red foxes running the neighborhood lately, ones who will literally follow along behind or to the side, in people's yards, some 50 yards from the wife as she walks the dogs. Of course, the dogs go positively bananas when they see the foxes.
I think the video was taken in December. Maybe November. Anyway, thank you for your input.
they do that when they get together before heading out, usually at dawn or dusk.
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Hearing them just like that around here on random occasions when I’m wizzing off the deck.
I cannot even get my labs to woof out a ‘tentative dog bark’ lazy slugs. Guess their used to noise
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Rog', that audio was taken @ 2 or 3 in the AM. Right when I'm wide awake every night, as you know. They were going on for a good five minutes like that before I slid out onto the deck as quietly as I could to listen. Less than 30 seconds of my being out there they clammed up. I'm certain they got my wind and headed out.
In lots of cases, it sounds like more coyotes than it actually is.
When they make that sound like yipping, others at a distance can join in. Kind of a way of saying "This is my yard. Where are you?"
If i ever heard them doing that as i pulled up near a spot i was going to walk a ways to and call, it usually meant the jig was up and they were telling others there was a stupid sucker messing around in their neighborhood and if they heard a call to not go to it.
Only a couple of times have i succeeded in calling a young one in.
Whats your experience with that Barry?
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I said usually, not always, I've heard it a hundred times over the yrs.
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I hear them yipping and squealing like that all the time. No particular time of year. And they're moving.
When I'm hiking and camping, I try to camp up on the hillside, as far up as I can get. Besides just liking to be high up, I figure that the coyotes are more likely to be traveling around down in the bottoms more so than up on the side of the hill. And they do. A few times I have heard them making racket as they pass along the creek bed way down below me.
If i ever heard them doing that as i pulled up near a spot i was going to walk a ways to and call, it usually meant the jig was up and they were telling others there was a stupid sucker messing around in their neighborhood and if they heard a call to not go to it.
Only a couple of times have i succeeded in calling a young one in.
Whats your experience with that Barry?
When you hear them like that, it tells you coyotes are in the area, and probably worth spending time calling.
I'd go a bit further away and look for a good place to call, and get ready.
Young coyotes are dumb. Once they get out on their own, they are easy to call in. They are not educated yet.
When a coyote sits off in the distance and barks at you, THAT means the gig is up, and he's onto you. (Preview sound # 180...)
Something like within a couple of hundred yards. My dogs are constantly at war with the coyotes once the first cold snap hits until around late March or early April. They actually took off after them when I played your recording.
One May several years ago I took an iron skillet outside and it clanged while I was cleaning it out. To my surprise, a coyote pup started barking at me from a den about 70 yards away. He was irritated. lol They can be sneaky ghosts while raising pups.
I hear them yipping and squealing like that all the time. No particular time of year. And they're moving.
I hear 'yotes making this sound fairly often, and like you said, they're moving. Usually it's the middle of the night and they sometimes sound like a siren in the distance.
I think it's simply chatter between them and helps them stay amped up and to a lesser degree, since they're roughly already together, is a locating sound, (the real locating call for coyotes is much different). Also, as Barry mentioned, that's probably only 2-4 coyotes. They have a strange ability to make a thimbleful sound like a rushing river.
BTW, KG, it's nice to see you posting here and there again.
Scroll down to C32, and run the preview on the right.
It could be a yipping pair as well.
In lots of cases, it sounds like more coyotes than it actually is.
When they make that sound like yipping, others at a distance can join in. Kind of a way of saying "This is my yard. Where are you?"
Thanks, Barry. I was sure I heard at least three and maybe as many as five but I'm short on coyote fluency. Obviously.
We have lots here, and there was a HUGE one out back I did see that I wanted badly to shoot and thought about it, but I'm not trying to have to face a judge over a violation of discharge laws (500' or better from dwelling in use). A few places I fish on the coast there are coyotes that have become seasonal specialists, and learned that when the surf fishermen are working the beach for bass and blues, every night's Friday fish night! They'll lay low in the dunes at night, and when Pablo walks his surf rig and his 8 and bait to cast at the waterline, Mr. Coyote shoots out, snatches the bait, bag and all, and hauls ass.
Most I hear and see are in places we can't hunt them (read residential neighborhoods), and the state in its seemingly infinite lack of good sense did away with all traps other than live cage/box Havahart types a number of years ago. No leg holds, no snares, no compression kill sets of any type allowed. Live, 'humane' traps only. One of these days I have to get a caller, use of which is legal here, and have at it. Decoys and bait legal as well, though while hunting at night we are limited to .22LR for rifles and .38 for handguns . 'Can't allow them to suffer! Maximum caliber for coyote night hunting? .22LR!' Unreal.
They were going on for a good five minutes like that before I slid out onto the deck as quietly as I could to listen. Less than 30 seconds of my being out there they clammed up. I'm certain they got my wind and headed out.
