Coyote Hunting

[adjusterr]

Here are a few "Good Coyotes" out of Washington County.

 

[Striper69]

Nice pic and way more clear than my own pitiful underbrush phonecam attempt! I have been biking & hiking the Catoctin Trail regularly since 1997 and in all that time, I have only seen two and was rattled at by a third. One was flattened/dead from trying to cross Fishing Creek Rd, one was crossing the blue trail so I gently provoked him with a fallen branch just to hear him rattle and the third rattled at me after I disturbed him trying to be suave setting up a picnic lunch for my wife at the Rte 15 overlook. What's nuts is how some timbers have a very olivish tint to their banding that makes them near impossible to spot once Spring and Summer green the area back up. I don't know if it's an individual trait or a seasonal, dietary or environmental one but it sure makes me happy for their auditory alert.

I thought I saw on the Maryland DNR website that there were no poisonous snakes in Maryland?

 

[recon4]

adjuster, any chance you want to point me in the right direction of any decent places to hunt yotes in md?

 

[FFMike]

I thought I saw on the Maryland DNR website that there were no poisonous snakes in Maryland?

There are Copperheads and Timber Rattlers in Md.

I have seen plenty of Copperheads in Central Md, several Timber Rattlers in Western Md., and have seen two Timber Rattlers (1995 or 1996) while on a large brush fire in Patapsco State Park in the Ellicott City area off of Rt 40.

Like coyotes, they are here....

 

[juan_galto]

I'm moderately tied up through the holidays, but I'd love to make some stands starting in January. Anybody interested?

I'm out in Sykesville but am thinking I'll probably look at going West.

 

[Flametamer]

I have killed 3 copperheads in my backyard here in northern Frederick County, several in the nearby Catoctin mountains, as well as 1 rattler that made a very nice had band. This over a 20-year span, so there are not many, but they are here.