Another NY coyote not doing what it's supposed to do

[hunt0168]

After an uneventful couple stands last night, my brother and I called it quits. I got a call from one of my landowners this morning to tell me that he took his muzzleloader for a walk first thing and found that a coyote had bedded very close to the base of his ladder stand last night. Knowing where this stand is, and the lay of the land it made me think of the recent posts about where they typically bed and why.

The weather last night wasn't insane or anything, but we did have a front moving in with temps in the 20's and an east, southeast wind around 10 mph, with gust up to 20 mph or so. This coyote bedded in a thick brushy drainage ditch/draw that separates open crop field containing corn stubble currently. This ditch runs downhill from the north to south. This coyote bedded on the downside of the west bank of the ditch, towards the northern (upper) end of the draw with the winds coming from the east, southeast. I'm sure it had it's reasons for bedding where it did, and I'm not sure which way it's head was facing but it sure hadn't read the coyote bedding handbook. Lol...

Another case of never say never or always.

 

[Spurchaser]

Eastern coyotes don’t count in the Western coyote playbook, lol.

 

[flintrock]

Western coyotes don't know how to read. They're really good at math though.

 

[AWS]

If coyotes did what we think they should, they would be all gone by now.

 

[Spurchaser]

If coyotes did what we think they should, they would be all gone by now.

Thank God for the dumb curious ones!!

 

[jmeddy]

If coyotes did what we think they should, they would be all gone by now.

Could not be said any better.