Another Coyote.

[Chuck White]

Yesterday while putting in maple taps, we saw where two WOLVES met and had a fight.

One of them left, losing a little blood, the other one must have hit a small artery because it was quite steady spraying off to the left side.

The only reason we say it was wolves is because of the size of the tracks, coyote tracks are usually the size of a quarter and sometimes the size of a half-dollar, but these were a little bigger than a silver dollar.

The injured one could have possibly been tracked down and caught up with, he was definitely hurt!

[KEC]

Wolf feet are huge compared to coyotes. Sort of like gray fox tracks are small and round, but red fox tracks are larger and broad. Coyotes tracks are bigger than fox and tend to be oblong. The wolves have very large foot pads. I don't pretend to know what you saw, Chuck, just sayin. A year or two ago a coyote hunter in Otsego County, NY called in and shot what he thought was a big coyote; DNA testing determined it to be a wolf. DEC is telling hunters and trappers to be aware of this and not kill wolves. Knowingly killing a wolf in NY will land you in legal hot water. 

[SwampDonkey]

Coyotes prints are a lot bigger than silver dollars. There's a cat around here with a print as big as a dollar piece. He roams in the yard at night tripping the garage light to come on. Coyote tracks are over 3" long and wolf is 5" long, 4" wide. Fox is about 2-1/2" long.

[Jeff]

Cedar found this on a weekend run to the cabin

 

[beenthere]

Seems whatever it was, ate something with hair and likely had a hard time passing it.  :

[SwampDonkey]

All that hair is good roughage, probably had no trouble at all. :D

[Jeff]

Not sure, but this may of been wolf.

[KEC]

A lot of things go into identifying scat. Jeff, I would think wolf or big coyote looks right. If in an area where there are free roaming dogs, dogs that are eating store bought dog food will have scat lacking much hair and homogenous in appearance, like the dog food they eat.

[Peter Drouin]

I have friends in town with night scopes now. I think they're up to 18. The session ends March 20th I think for nighttime hunting.


Old pix in my yard. Biggest one 5' long 50lb they said.
They have a road kill deer out in the field. 160 yards out. 223 on a tripod.

[SwampDonkey]

Last winter the neighbor left a dead cow at the back of his field, the yotes and even the wild turkeys (not vultures) fed on that all winter. There were about 40 turkeys hanging around there. I figure a turkey will eat anything a crow eats when it's cold enough. :D

[Texas Ranger]

 I figure a turkey will eat anything a crow eats when it's cold enough. :D

I figure they were eating the maggots.

[thecfarm]

Winter, Maggots?
Need flies for maggots?

[Texas Ranger]

Turkey have no teeth, cannot chew, bugs the only option, and dead maggots are still protein.

[Walnut Beast]

Was down in the woods last night sizing up trees and measuring with the full moon. Being able to see the big trees with no light was and always is mystical. But had a hair raising experience of a pack of coyotes that went berserk probably 60 yards over a small bank by the creek. I thought they were for sure coming over the bank our way and going to be in for a big surprise with Diesel and I quiet and alert. They slipped in the CRP. Diesel found the place they were wrestling around on the ground 

[Peter Drouin]

Matting time now.

[Logger RK]

Northwest Wisconsin full grown wolf tracks are typically 4-5 inch wide & long. But in the snow it's hard to get a good measurement. I had a pack visit the deer herd the other day, that's been increasing as the snow depth rises where I'm logging this winter. What started out with 6 is 30-40. The deer hear the logging & track down all the tree buds there after. Around dark they move closer to my landing. I must say the wolves are good hunters & don't waste much. It's there getting over populated. Let's just say stray dogs don't last long if they go out in the woods.