pile of ead deer

[mrbb]

OK here in PA I see now that our state game dept, has decided to put out a live cam over a pile of dead deer, to show what all eats them, its now in a like a slide show, but pretty cool ?? to see the bobcats and other critters eating on the deer
if anyone cares to look here is the link


http://www.pgc.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/pgc/9106

[mrbb]

sorry guys that was supposed to read DEAD deer, not EAD deer??

[Griz]

I'm not quite sure what I think of that pile of deer. Thats another story. But I wonder why there were no coyotes? I would of thought they would be all over it.

[mrbb]

well I am not surprised about the NO coyoyes, I have grown up near many so called road kill pits the state keeps, and over the yrs, it very very odd to ever see a coyote near them
or at least in winter time, I see them there once the weather gets warm and they start to really stink
about the time the bears come out
and to be honest, they seem to wait for a bear to come and drag one away from the rest, and then eat on that one after the bear moves off
to me I think coyotes think these piles are traps and avoid them unless starving!

I know over the yrs I have tried to put out a road killed deer with a camera over it, and I get the same thing, no coyotes till its been there for months ??
but find it funny, as if a deer gets shot or a winter kill on its own, they get right on it??
never really got why, but its ben my experience to date?
there smart critters, maybe they know something we don't??

[Griz]

[QUOTE=mrbb;150848]well I am not surprised about the NO coyoyes, I have grown up near many so called road kill pits the state keeps, and over the yrs, it very very odd to ever see a coyote near them
or at least in winter time, I see them there once the weather gets warm and they start to really stink
about the time the bears come out
and to be honest, they seem to wait for a bear to come and drag one away from the rest, and then eat on that one after the bear moves off

When I was trapping coyotes they were the hardest to fool. Most of the time it was the scent you left behind that made them skidish. I started laying a plastic matt down before I made the set. And if possible I kneeled behind the set when it was made. If they smell a human, they go on alert. So maybe? a human dragging a deer puts scent on it. And they stay away. A road kill or unfound deer has no human scent. What they know, is that humans are there only predator.