tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-532222786086994957.post2718504328035846921..comments2024-01-08T11:53:28.765-06:00Comments on Birding on Broadmeade: Cold and GloomyMikael Behrenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15699778875123504190noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-532222786086994957.post-82773465567127796292010-02-05T20:00:51.407-06:002010-02-05T20:00:51.407-06:00Thanks for the updates on the beavers. I was down...Thanks for the updates on the beavers. I was down there last weekend and also saw the fresh tree damage. I also saw a couple very large burrow holes near the marsh that leads me to think the beavers are using burrows for dens vs. typical huts made of fallen tree limbs. The Texas beavers are known to burrow. <br /><br />So with Coyotes in the area, shall we film our own nature reality series?Barry Noretnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-532222786086994957.post-61644856706493388492010-02-02T08:45:55.825-06:002010-02-02T08:45:55.825-06:00Yes, it's amazing how much wildlife uses the s...Yes, it's amazing how much wildlife uses the small patches of habitat we have in the neighborhood. I think it helps that right across Parmer Lane is undeveloped ranch land. I don't know how long it will stay undeveloped, but I suspect that's where many of the deer and coyotes spend their days.<br /><br />Wow, maybe I should post about this evidence of coyote predation to promote Mikael Behrenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15699778875123504190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-532222786086994957.post-17839045533139160932010-02-01T23:43:23.392-06:002010-02-01T23:43:23.392-06:00I'm really not sure, Mikael. The few guides th...I'm really not sure, Mikael. The few guides that I have do list coyotes among their natural predators. As do many online places: http://nature.ca/notebooks/englIsh/beaver.htm. I don't know though if that means that it would take only one coyote or several to do the job. <br /><br />I do think that if our deer suffered the same fate, it was a pack, not an individual. It was a young deer I Stefanihttp://www.blueyonderranch.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-532222786086994957.post-2643847890827820992010-02-01T18:43:02.013-06:002010-02-01T18:43:02.013-06:00Thanks Stefani! Gracen Duffield lives along the cr...Thanks Stefani! Gracen Duffield lives along the creek near the Parmer Bridge and she has also heard coyotes recently -- just in the past few days.<br /><br />In my very limited experience with beavers they aren't too fast on land and they escape by swimming. The water by the marsh where I found the beaver's head is very shallow, so I doubt a beaver would be able to use it to escape. A Mikael Behrenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15699778875123504190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-532222786086994957.post-30338790633104938702010-02-01T15:53:09.446-06:002010-02-01T15:53:09.446-06:00We live very near the trail you speak of and heard...We live very near the trail you speak of and heard what could only have been coyotes a couple of weeks ago. There where several and they were yelping - like a sort of celebratory sound. We wondered if they'd gotten a large kill of some sort. .<br /><br />Then, my son and I were on the trail yesterday (the other end, near Broadmeade) and noticed an almost complete deer skeleton, picked very Stefanihttp://www.blueyonderranch.comnoreply@blogger.com