Coyote With Injured Front Paw, 11/13/24
Traveling in a group of 3, so if s/he's lucky, the family will share food.
Traveling in a group of 3, so if s/he's lucky, the family will share food.
BIG Owl on my Trail
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Coyote With Injured Front Paw, 11/24/24
This is 11 days after the injured coyote first showed up on my cameras, so clearly it's surviving. It doesn't look emaciated, so it's eating. I doubt it can hunt like that, so are the other helping it with food?
Coyote With Injured Front Paw, 12/20/24
It's been 5 weeks since this injured coyote initially crossed my cameras, and for the first time s/he seems to be putting a little bit of weight on it. I cut ~30 seconds of dead time between the two animals, but these two are definitely traveling together, and I see the injured one with 1 or 2 companions very regularly.
Coyote with Rabbit (?)
Looks like a rabbit to me, but I could be wrong:
Looks like a rabbit to me, but I could be wrong:
I live in RPV! I thought the scenery looked a lot like home…what neighborhood are you in?
Also, do you have your triggers on motion sensor? Do you get a lot of false triggers? Thanks.
Right now I'm triggering strictly on motion, and alerting on triggers, so I get a ton of false positives:
I tried installing CPAI a while back, but it was really unstable, so I uninstalled it. I may try it again, and using it to Alert only on animal/human detection.
One of "my" coyotes died a few weeks back, and I found it on a trail about 1/2 mile from my cameras:
A lot of folks around here consider them a nuisance, and I consider them a danger to my own cats, but it's hard not to feel sad when you've been watching them daily. I didn't turn it over or examine the body, but I didn't see any obvious trauma, and it's clearly not a starvation death.
County picked up the carcass, and I've asked if they checked/recorded the gender, and whether or not they tested for poison, but I doubt they'll get back to me, since they're overworked and understaffed. TBH I'm surprised they actually picked it up, given that it's not on a public street or a hazard to anyone.
I am still seeing 2 adults (instead of 3) nightly on my cameras, so I'm wondering if this was one of the mated pair, or their offspring.
A lot of folks around here consider them a nuisance, and I consider them a danger to my own cats, but it's hard not to feel sad when you've been watching them daily. I didn't turn it over or examine the body, but I didn't see any obvious trauma, and it's clearly not a starvation death.
County picked up the carcass, and I've asked if they checked/recorded the gender, and whether or not they tested for poison, but I doubt they'll get back to me, since they're overworked and understaffed. TBH I'm surprised they actually picked it up, given that it's not on a public street or a hazard to anyone.
I am still seeing 2 adults (instead of 3) nightly on my cameras, so I'm wondering if this was one of the mated pair, or their offspring.