On the coyote bed thing, there's a spot near our bear camp in north central PA that is some of the thickest laurel we've encountered, and that's saying something there. We'd been thru it before on bear drives, so we knew what it was. You do the under-machinegun-fire crawl they teach you in the military in there - it's the only way thru unless you can fly. But this time we had some rookie high school kids, so we sent them thru it....LOL! Experience pays. Anyhooo, we get a call on the radio from one of the young un's...."Can anybody hear me?"...."Yeah, what's up?"....."I found something"...."OK, what'd ya find?"...."I'm not sure"....."Ummmm, ok..what's it look like"...."well, it's dark in here and I can't see too good, but it looks like bowls dug down in the ground with fur lining them"........"Ummmm, dude, I don't know exactly where you are, but get the H outta there!".
Later, best we could figure out, we think it's coyote "nests" where they shack up in thick laurel on top of a ridge during the summer months?? where they can catch whatever breeze may flow thru there.....not sure, but it's our theory. Thinking they do the walk-in-a-circle thing that dogs do before they lay down and paw at the ground repeatedly (the bowls), and shed hair (fur) during the summer months to the point that the hair builds up in the dugout bowls? Make any sense to anybody? Any coyote with any sense woulda been gone WAY before the drive got in there. Oddly, it's right behind some of the camps thee...prolly within 100 yards or so. There can be bear in there on any given day or time, so why yotes?
Thought I'd share.
Later, best we could figure out, we think it's coyote "nests" where they shack up in thick laurel on top of a ridge during the summer months?? where they can catch whatever breeze may flow thru there.....not sure, but it's our theory. Thinking they do the walk-in-a-circle thing that dogs do before they lay down and paw at the ground repeatedly (the bowls), and shed hair (fur) during the summer months to the point that the hair builds up in the dugout bowls? Make any sense to anybody? Any coyote with any sense woulda been gone WAY before the drive got in there. Oddly, it's right behind some of the camps thee...prolly within 100 yards or so. There can be bear in there on any given day or time, so why yotes?
Thought I'd share.