“These new wildlife regulations are based on modern wildlife management science, with the coyote hunting and trapping seasons designed to manage the coyote population at biologically and socially acceptable levels,” said David Saveikis, director of the Division of Fish and Wildlife. “The combination of coyote hunting and trapping seasons to manage the coyote population and the Secretary’s Order authorizing landowners to protect themselves and their property from coyotes provides the tools needed to address Delaware’s relatively small coyote population.”
The Secretary’s Order pre-authorizes Delaware landowners or their agents to take coyotes, with no individual permit needed, on the landowner’s property under circumstances where coyotes present an imminent threat of injury to, or are in the act of injuring humans, livestock or domestic animals, subject to the following conditions:
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Can anyone tell me if they have positively seen one in the Williamsville area between Selbyville and W. Fenwick? I'm asking because for about a year now, I've found piles of what resembles fox poop around my yard except it is much bigger than what a fox normally leaves. I looked it up online and coyote poop looks just like a fox's.
Then last summer a fawn with a horrible wound on it's hind quarter stumbled into my yard. The wound would be consistence with something having chased the fawn.
A deer hunters trail cam caught one in the woods near the old mill crab house in delmar. They have been seen all over the eastern shore and have been killer by hunters in Pittsville and Willards.
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