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Dear Frank,
I live near Collier and Hwy 54 in Land O’ Lakes. I work nights, so driving home at night I have seen the usual type things like raccoons, possums and deer. I have even seen a gator in the middle of Willowbend Parkway. Twice, in the last week, I have seen what I think is a coyote; once on the side of the road on Willowbend and County Line - Lutz and just this morning feeding on roadkill at 41 and Sunset. Being from West Texas I have seen my share, so know what a coyote looks like. Has anyone else reported the same? If so people need to keep the cats in. Always enjoy reading your colums.—Ben Strakos
Ben,
Actually, coyotes are now very common throughout most of Florida. They spread into the state roughly 20 years ago, and have also come on strong in pretty much all of the eastern U.S. in that time; I occasionally see them when I hunt in Ohio, Alabama, Georgia and North Carolina. Biologists speculate that the spread came along with the increase in whitetail deer, though I think they prey on smaller animals in general--armodillos seem the most common target here. In any case, you are right about them taking household pets--an easy catch.
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Posted by GLENN CHANEY, now in outer ocala, of florida fame, but no snook on 09/04 at 01:35 PM
Frank, those critters now have the run of the entire Eastern U.S. Night time is the right time to hear heart thumping hot chases off in the woods. Last I heard, the rabbit population was an especial honey hole at TIA in central Tampa as the Veteran’s Parkway when under construction, allowed coyotes to walk right into metro Tampa. As you know, the alpha male and alpha female determine the pack’s survival. Their populations are now pervasive throughout our hunting ranges of the Southeast. BTW, is it not soon “that time of year again?” Have been suffering through skewers of onion, bell pepper, mushrooms and cherry tomatoes with salmon and mahi mahi, as a snook substitute. We, like the coyote, adapt. Regards, Glenn Chaney