Happy Groundhog Day

[bsekf]

Main diet for coyotes. When the coyotes invaded WNY the woodchucks disappeared.

[HandgunhuntingAfield]

Our rock chucks don’t come out until about May. Pdogs are out year round on sunny days.

[Kylongrifle]

Main diet for coyotes. When the coyotes invaded WNY the woodchucks disappeared.

Pretty much the same here. My neighbor owns 275 acres. The only spots you will find a groundhog on thier place is within 200 yards of a house.

[FyrepowrX]

we see them rarely here...too many coyotes i'm pretty sure, and a while back the neighbor texted me a photo of a bobcat walking across my yard towards her house , so i'm sure the cats would try to make a snack of it too.

Had 1 groundhog poking around the yard last year , i asked the neighbor & she said it's been hanging around the yards here a couple of years now, i guess it is close enough to the house to where the yotes wont usually come in. It is a female, and last year it had 2 young/kits/pups, or whatever juvenile groundhogs are called.

Its safe here in the yard, maybe it knows the coyotes are NOT welcome & predators will be shot on sight...though ironically i celebrated groundhog day by buying a new .222.

[Mjshell]

I see very few on my acreage. I’ve left them alone hoping to increase the numbers. However same problem with the coyotes and the bobcats. Numbers just don’t come up.