Coons?
Coons?
07-05-2013, 07:08 PM
#2
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Southeast Missouri
Posts: 2,178
Are You talking about in the Winter time or when they starting having their Young?
Around here Racoons will Go up in their Den Tree's during daylight hours year round then come down in the late evenings,night time and early mornings mostly.In the Winter time they will stay in Dens,Hollow Trees and move much more to look for food and stay warm....I'm thinking they have their Young around Feb,March or April because I've seen Young ones that were weened and traveling with Momma Racoon starting in June & July!
Around here Racoons will Go up in their Den Tree's during daylight hours year round then come down in the late evenings,night time and early mornings mostly.In the Winter time they will stay in Dens,Hollow Trees and move much more to look for food and stay warm....I'm thinking they have their Young around Feb,March or April because I've seen Young ones that were weened and traveling with Momma Racoon starting in June & July!
07-06-2013, 03:25 PM
#4
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Kansas
Posts: 3,915
"Bonjour"... You found it on the internet, it must be true, right?
All kidding aside, it's all relative, even for coons. Region of the country, typical temps around that time, warm/cold fronts, moisture/precipitation/snow cover, moon phase, etc etc can all dictate whether coons are active or not. If it has been snowing and blowing 40 below zero somewhere up north, then coons are likely to be moving to feed when the sun breaks out and warms up to 25. If it has been 60 degrees all February and a nasty cold front moves into northern Oklahoma for a few days and drops temps to 30, coons will likely wait out the front for a few days until it warms back up.
Simply stated, coons do not hibernate. They may stay in a den for a few days at a time, but they don't go dormant for months on end like bears. How often they venture out during the winter depends on a lot of variables, and predicting that is more of an artform than a science.
All kidding aside, it's all relative, even for coons. Region of the country, typical temps around that time, warm/cold fronts, moisture/precipitation/snow cover, moon phase, etc etc can all dictate whether coons are active or not. If it has been snowing and blowing 40 below zero somewhere up north, then coons are likely to be moving to feed when the sun breaks out and warms up to 25. If it has been 60 degrees all February and a nasty cold front moves into northern Oklahoma for a few days and drops temps to 30, coons will likely wait out the front for a few days until it warms back up.
Simply stated, coons do not hibernate. They may stay in a den for a few days at a time, but they don't go dormant for months on end like bears. How often they venture out during the winter depends on a lot of variables, and predicting that is more of an artform than a science.
07-06-2013, 08:36 PM
#5
Giant Nontypical
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