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I was at work yesterday when I got a call from my wife who was (only slightly) freaking out because there in our yard, in broad daylight, was a coyote! Just kind of lurking in the bushes. She took note of where it ran off to and I went poking around when I got home.
I read that coyotes will sometimes make their dens in hollowed out gopher holes, and we have a big embankment on our propert that is riddled with the aforementioned rodent houses (they are mountain beaver holes, it's getting to be a real problem in our yard...)
Anyway, I noticed this...
Here's a pulled out view
Sorry for the poor picture quality, I didn't want to get too close and had to rely on my phone's zoom to get the shots.
That pile of dirt is about 5 times larger than the dirt piles from all the other beaver holes.
What do you guys think? Could this be a coyote den? It's super close to the road, and about 300 yards from our house, but maybe the coyote is so used to being around humans that it doesn't mind the proximity? I've seen sign around that area a few times, footprints and scat. It seems weird to me that a coyote would make its home so close to humans but I guess you never know what an animal will do when it gets used to people. Am I making a mountain out of a molehill or have I found a coyote den in my yard?
I read that coyotes will sometimes make their dens in hollowed out gopher holes, and we have a big embankment on our propert that is riddled with the aforementioned rodent houses (they are mountain beaver holes, it's getting to be a real problem in our yard...)
Anyway, I noticed this...
Here's a pulled out view
Sorry for the poor picture quality, I didn't want to get too close and had to rely on my phone's zoom to get the shots.
That pile of dirt is about 5 times larger than the dirt piles from all the other beaver holes.
What do you guys think? Could this be a coyote den? It's super close to the road, and about 300 yards from our house, but maybe the coyote is so used to being around humans that it doesn't mind the proximity? I've seen sign around that area a few times, footprints and scat. It seems weird to me that a coyote would make its home so close to humans but I guess you never know what an animal will do when it gets used to people. Am I making a mountain out of a molehill or have I found a coyote den in my yard?