Bird damage.

[H380]

So what is everyone's cure or preventative measures that they take to minimize eagle and raven damage to snared coyotes? Been at it for 4 days now and lost 2 out of first 6 catches ..lots of bait present.

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[Tfng]

I lost one to birds today also. 36 hour check on that one. Lots of bait also but it’s frozen and not warm and fresh like my coyote lol.

[H380]

The one that is a total loss was a.pup and very small but doesn't make it much easier to take ..I've got 8 eagles between these 2 spots and if things dont get any better I'll just pull snares and go back to calling or sitting bait piles ..My checks are 48 hrs and its 20.miles one way .

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[204ruger]

When I was getting raven and eagle damage it was mostly because of two things, my sets were too close to the bait especially when bait was frozen a fresh coyote is easy pickings, and if my sets were to much out in the open where if the coyote died it was most likely to be out in the open and not in brush or other underlying trees/ deadfall.
Just my experiences and since those two changes haven’t suffered any bird damage now in two seasons.

[H380]

Originally Posted by 204ruger

When I was getting raven and eagle damage it was mostly because of two things, my sets were too close to the bait especially when bait was frozen a fresh coyote is easy pickings, and if my sets were to much out in the open where if the coyote died it was most likely to be out in the open and not in brush or other underlying trees/ deadfall.

Just my experiences and since those two changes haven’t suffered any bird damage now in two seasons.

Thanx bud , I have removed a couple of the real open sets but i dont have a real lot of cover anywhere ...i may trying moving bait out into wide open like on the river ice and see what happens

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[shakeyleg02]

Originally Posted by H380

Thanx bud , I have removed a couple of the real open sets but i dont have a real lot of cover anywhere ...i may trying moving bait out into wide open like on the river ice and see what happens

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Correction you dont have an actual tree for miles

[H380]

Originally Posted by shakeyleg02

Correction you dont have an actual tree for miles

Oh , there might be one on the east end of the county ...in some ones yard ..lol.

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[H380]

Thanx for the replies and comments folks..after a sleepless night wondering what to do I moving to early morning every day checks AND moving my meated bait sites away from the brush where I have my snares..i will still place heavy scented gut piles down near my original bait site to keep dogs coming thru . Hopefully the eagles will start working the meat piles and stay a touch farther from my catches .. the gut piles will get cleaned up quickly but leave some scent to attract coyotes . If this doesnt work I will just set some boats and.make a blind where I can sit and shoot incoming coyotes, wont be as productive number wise as the snares but I'm not gonna feed those beautiful coyotes to a bunch of scavenging ugly eagles .
As for feeding coyote carcasses to the birds I cant think of a better way to teach them to eat coyote . Let you know how it goes .


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[H380]

It over for 2 of my bait sites ..another bird wreck ..sick and tired of feeding my catch to the eagles .

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[jeffreys 21234]

Well had my first bird damaged yote today on a small yote was my fault snare was set to close to bait an when it died was out in the open so was fair game for them so damaged to bother salvaging