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16F4 OP t1_is4hv7j wrote

Reply to comment by Super-Lychee8852 in What’s going on tonight with the coyotes? by 16F4

Nope. We didn’t have coyotes in the area when I was growing up around here (40+++ years ago)

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Super-Lychee8852 t1_is4ixdd wrote

Yeah over 40 years ago the population was much smaller. In the early 1960s there were less than 1000 coyotes in the entire state. Today there are over 15,000.

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16F4 OP t1_is4k9fn wrote

I did not realize the coyote population here is so large! When I was growing up in town (Winslow) we never heard or saw coyotes. Of course, my sisters property in Fairfield is quite rural field and adjacent to trees so a perfect habitat for them. I am also wondering since it’s six months past litter season if I am hearing the pups getting ready to leave the den.

I’ve been reading up on Maines coyote population this evening. Interesting stuff, especially the wolf DNA measurements and conservation measures.

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Super-Lychee8852 t1_is4ksln wrote

It is very large, I didn't expect you to be as old as you are so that makes more sense as to why you wouldn't have heard them. They're considered pretty over-populated and are basically considered pests, it's been open season on them for many years now in an attempt to bring down the population. The only species that's allowed to be hunted at night and with thermal and/or night vision. And can shoot as many as you want

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16F4 OP t1_is4kwyp wrote

Who you calling “old”, whippersnapper? I prefer the term “experienced”…kick your ass at fiddlehead picking.😉

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IamSauerKraut t1_is7nvif wrote

There were coyotes out on the road to China and off GarlandRd decades ago.

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Shilo788 t1_iscake8 wrote

They have been on the increase since the late seventies, early eighties. I would lie in a tent and listen to them in my twenties above Baxter. Now they are like raccoons, every where. They even are in NYC they have a video about it on YouTube.

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IamSauerKraut t1_is7nqrs wrote

I shot one in Albion back in the day. And on days when Dave Martin had us running down to Benton Falls or out on Ohio Hill Rd, we would see them.

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