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Index of Subjects I live just a few km from Barrett Lake, and locals know Coyotes are in the area. In fact there are homemade signs near our mailboxes when they are frequenting certain areas. Also on another site on the other side of Tucker Lake where I live. I have never heard of any being right in around the homes/subdivisions since moving here 15 months ago. Coyotes are everywhere these days, we are just reminded how much so when there is a carcass or two around for them to feed on and we see them. Gary Murray Tucker Lake Beaverbank NS ---- Rick Whitman <dendroica.caerulescens@gmail.com> wrote: > Barrett Lake is well out along Beaverbank Road. Even on a map you can > see that there is all kinds of habitat in the immediate area. Those > who live in that area are living in dreamland if they doubt that every > one of them have had coyotes right in their backyards, at night, at > one time or another. Deer too, of course. To think that DNR could > scare coyotes out of this area with even semi-permanent success is a > farce. Yes, the residents could be advised. They could be advised that > they have chosen to live within and adjacent to coyote habitat. From > time to time they will see deer and coyotes. > > When a specific coyote is seen right in a backyard during the daytime, > or when one approaches humans anywhere in a clearly aggressive way, > DNR has a role to play. Any response taken to a coyote out in the > middle of a lake, trying to get a bit of deer meat, would be pandering > to ignorance of the biological reality all around us, and nothing > more. > > Rick. > > On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Dusan Soudek <soudekd@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote: > > I understand that he deer carcass is near a suburban residential area. It > > may not be entirely unreasonable of DNR to try to scare the coyotes away > > from the neighbourhood, rather than shoot them... But one could also argue > > for doing nothing, except for perhaps advising the local residents of the > > situation. > > Dusan Soudek
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