Coyotes eat pears?!?!

[Nomad47]

This afternoon as I was returning to the sofa from taking my lunch plate to the kitchen sink, I looked out the dining sliding glass door. Ah, a deer is feeding on pears that have fallen on the ground. Deer are a fairly common sighting under both our apple and pear trees. But this deer is small with short legs. Better get a good look with the binocs. Well, dang! That's a coyote.

He is very skittish, keeps looking around. I keep a 22 rimfire in the corner near the door - for the occasional groundhog sighting in the back yard - 4 this past summer. But I know the coyote will bolt when he hears me unlock the door (dang SNAPPING sound). So I decide to take a pic with the phone. But as I was returning with the phone, he was already trotting off.

I know the canine family is primarily carnivorous, so I was quite surprised to see a coyote eating pears.

 

[okie]

This afternoon as I was returning to the sofa from taking my lunch plate to the kitchen sink, I looked out the dining sliding glass door. Ah, a deer is feeding on pears that have fallen on the ground. Deer are a fairly common sighting under both our apple and pear trees. But this deer is small with short legs. Better get a good look with the binocs. Well, dang! That's a coyote.

He is very skittish, keeps looking around. I keep a 22 rimfire in the corner near the door - for the occasional groundhog sighting in the back yard - 4 this past summer. But I know the coyote will bolt when he hears me unlock the door (dang SNAPPING sound). So I decide to take a pic with the phone. But as I was returning with the phone, he was already trotting off.

I know the canine family is primarily carnivorous, so I was quite surprised to see a coyote eating pears.

yep, also cause a lot of damage to watermelons and they really like persimmons

 

[Hopkins]

Have seen them eat persimmons, figs, crab apples and the corn the deer hunters bait with.

 

[gme]

I see their scat full of seeds around here

 

[rebel]

I've had pics of them eating corn out my bait pile.

 

[Sniper338]

i have em eat corn all the time. pretty sure they eat anything to keep em going... like a buzzard!

 

[nmkid]

Coyotes will eat most anything to survive. That's why they still be around long after we are gone.

 

[hammerjack]

Here is one that got caught eating corn.

 

[SSL]

Have them eating fallen apples from my trees and grapes off my vines all the time. Only happens in the middle of the night, of course! Get a lot of fresh tracks from eating leftover apples when the snow is on the ground.

 

[vmaxpro]

You guys aint seen nothin till u see javalina eating your halloween pumpkins on the porch lol

 

[6xcshooter]

coyotes eat anything when the apocalypse comes the only thing on earth will be cockroaches and coyotes and the coyotes will be eating the cockroaches

 

[AckleymanII]

my brother shot one yesterday that was eating on a corn pile!

I know that they eat plums, watermelons, and cantelopes. House cats are perhaps their favorite.

 

[Kracken McGraw]

We have a small grove of old pear trees in a horse pasture. I’m talking around 100 years old, believe it or not. First big norther in late October, they come falling. Always has been a great place to shoot coyotes early or at dusk.

 

[boltfluter]

I have seen the young of the year living, for the most part, on a diet of straight grasshoppers. They can pretty much survive on anything.

Paul

www.proprecisionrifles.com

 

[Huntschool]

In Texas they will eat Mesquite beans....... survivors... Yep.

 

[timeout]

yep, also cause a lot of damage to watermelons and they really like persimmons

I was in Oklahoma one time when the watermelons were ripe. Every piece of fresh coyote scat contained watermelon seeds. This was no matter if left in the far corner of a section or out on the road. My buddy had a neighbor about a quarter mile from him that raised watermelon and he was quite unhappy with the damage done by coyotes to his watermelon. That was my first experience with coyotes eating watermelon. I have found their scat here with plum seeds. Like others here have said, they eat almost everything. A couple things I have found that they would pass on to the point of starvation is otter and raccoon carcasses.

 

[GNERGY]

A friend shot one and it's stomach was full of juniper berries. Coyotes will eat anything that ISN'T on FIRE.
Tarey

 

[jds holler]

A friend shot one and it's stomach was full of juniper berries. Coyotes will eat anything that ISN'T on FIRE.
Tarey

Yup, out here the pups pretty much live on juniper berries until they are a year old or so. Pears sound a lot better than that. jd

 

[NorCalMikie]

Coyotes will eat anything. Road kill is something special. Happened to be up around 1:00 AM, flipped on the back light and standing maybe 25 feet from the kitchen window looking at the movement, there stands a Coyote. First one I've ever seen on my place. Lots of yips and howls from the back fields and across the road behind the vineyard but the first one I've seen with my own eyes.
I've got lots of deer and fox that make the rounds every day and night.
The fox and deer run together and watch out for each other. If the deer jump the fox are gone. If the Fox get jumpy, the deer are gone. Got a couple of butt sniffers (bucks) following the does into the yard. Maybe 15 feet from the kitchen window. Coastal bucks, maybe 75 pounds if that, dressed. Nice racks for a midget.
Lots of does with twins. One gimp with a bad back leg. They eat apples and pears by the back door and anything that gets put out for the critters. Don't see the gimp anymore. He was half the size of his sister. Still had it's spots. Figured it wouldn't make it.

Momma fox, last summer. Momma fox and two kits this year. Fun to watch the kits jumping and rolling all over Momma. They all know where the cat gets fed. Saw a standoff between Momma fox and my outside cat. Fox getting into the cats grub. Cat stalking the fox maybe 10 feet apart. Cat lunged at the fox, fox hissed at the cat, now they both respect each other, from a distance. Mother Nature at her best.

 

[okie]

I was in Oklahoma one time when the watermelons were ripe. Every piece of fresh coyote scat contained watermelon seeds. This was no matter if left in the far corner of a section or out on the road. My buddy had a neighbor about a quarter mile from him that raised watermelon and he was quite unhappy with the damage done by coyotes to his watermelon. That was my first experience with coyotes eating watermelon. I have found their scat here with plum seeds. Like others here have said, they eat almost everything. A couple things I have found that they would pass on to the point of starvation is otter and raccoon carcasses.

yep melon farmers lose a lot to them. they will gnaw on several, i suppose to find one of their liking, instead of just eating one. like otters, kill every fish in a hole and just sample them, hardly eat all of a fish...