They have a bushy tail 12 to 15 inches long with a black tip. In New York, the legal coyote hunting hours are from after sunrise on opening day and then any hour, day or night, for the rest of the open season. In 2020, 34 coyote sightings were reported. Coyotes are native to the western plains of the US and have expanded eastwards. That maybe, just maybe, what my wife and others saw wasn’t a bobcat that seemed bigger in the thrill of the moment, but a real, honest-to-goodness mountain lion, a long-lost ghost of the forest. Just after 1:00 of this video you hear them well sounds like they have pups with them. The Department of Energy & Environmental Protection monitors reports of black bear activity in Connecticut. If you have seen a bear, you can report it to the Wildlife Division by using the link to the left. There was a full moon on this night they kept going till 3am. Now, with an estimated population of 3,000 to 5,000, coyotes are seen in every town in the state and every continental state in the union. State officials want to ban the feeding of bears and coyotes on private land in Connecticut, because, experts warn, feeding them can lead … They have moved into Connecticut over the last century and are now common here. Table 1: 2013/2014 Coyote Hunting Season and Hours Table 1 shows the 2013/2014 coyote hunting season and legal hunting hours for Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, and Rhode Island. Below is a listing of bear reports received over the past year. Coyotes have a grizzled coat of tan, grey, or brown fur with some black mixed in, usually with lighter fur underneath. Although coyotes were first reported in Connecticut in the 1950s, the realization that they live among us didn’t become a reality until the ’80s and early ’90s when the number of sightings began to swell. Coyotes, bears and bobcats are traveling from wide swaths of deep forest along the Massachusetts and Connecticut borders to the Rhode Island … There is also something appealing about the idea that there is an animal out there so cunning that it has escaped our notice and the eyes of our cameras. Coyotes vary in appearance. 6 subspecies are found in western North America, 2 in the eastern, and 4 in the central North America, while the other 7 are found in Central America and Mexico. They sent out word “there is only one coyote and no reason to believe the population increased.” Sighting numbers are impressive, though. Coat color can vary widely, even among pups born to the same parents, and it can also change throughout the year as the coyote sheds or adds fur.Coyotes in the southeast range in color from orange/red to tan to gray to black. There are 19 subspecies of coyotes which are distinguished by their genetic differences and also according to their distribution range of each. There were 39 reported incidents involving coyotes threatening people in Connecticut last year, according to state wildlife officials, a three-fold increase from the year before. This list of mammals of Connecticut includes both native and nonnative species (introduced or invasive) found in the U.S. state of Connecticut now or in the past, but not domesticated or farm animals..