Since I've been hunting the yotes over the past few years, killing them every chance that I get, I now have bobcats in the area, which is somethin I haven't seen before.
One of them attacked my outdoor cat just yards away from me near our barn, about to carry him off into the woods during a summer evening, just before dark. I was able to stop him from doing that. A couple months later, my cat finally came up missing and have not seen him ever since. I do believe that bobcat finally got ahold of him for good this time.
I still occasionally see that bobcat in the area, quick glimpses of him here and there, and he does frequent our property far more than what I like.
I hope that we'll have the opportunity to hunt that kind of predator someday, before I get too old to do somethin about them.
Anyhow, chipmunks have made a comeback around here, where as years before we didn't have any at all, plus the Wild Turkeys too. Both, I believe have returned, or at least increased in population numbers.
We do have less number of coyotes now, both last year and this. Between me and another neighbor guy who he traps and I hunt them, I think we have put a nice dent into them. I still have not seen a mangled up deer yet by our local coyotes either, where as I was always used to seeing them in prior deer seasons quite regularly, and I have encountered them as well while in the act, chasing down those deer and destroying them in minutes. That has not happened at all, both last season, and this season, as of yet anyways.
Again, I do enjoy the sport of hunting coyotes with a rifle. It's a lot of fun when you're able to get on them like I have been over the past two years.
