gamestalkertwo
New member
Hello all, new here, but not at all new to the wonderful sport of hunting. I've also been a very long time participant and proponent of varmint hunting in addition to all other types of hunting.
So that said, I thought I would kick things off with an observation regarding coatimundi, a minimally observed animal, yet growing in numbers and locations.
As an avid hunter, I spend an enormous amount of time in the field glassing. As such, I've been seeing coatimundi in the high desert areas of units 36A, B, and C. But this last fall, and this winter as well, I have spotted two completely different groups of coatimundi, and they were down pretty low, below the Manzanita elevations.
Both were very large groups also, my Son, his wife, and I spent a good while taking a count, and there were at least 35+ coatimundi in one group located in 36A, while the other group in 36B contained more than 20. Both sightings occurred at elevations be low 5,000'. I also saw a large group in 34A last October while glassing, those were in the manzanita elevations, or above 5000'.
I've kept pace with their existence in Arizona since the mid 1980's, at which time they were sparsely populating the Chirichau's. But now it's apparent they are continuing to migrate throughout southern Arizona, and in rather large numbers too.
So that said, I thought I would kick things off with an observation regarding coatimundi, a minimally observed animal, yet growing in numbers and locations.
As an avid hunter, I spend an enormous amount of time in the field glassing. As such, I've been seeing coatimundi in the high desert areas of units 36A, B, and C. But this last fall, and this winter as well, I have spotted two completely different groups of coatimundi, and they were down pretty low, below the Manzanita elevations.
Both were very large groups also, my Son, his wife, and I spent a good while taking a count, and there were at least 35+ coatimundi in one group located in 36A, while the other group in 36B contained more than 20. Both sightings occurred at elevations be low 5,000'. I also saw a large group in 34A last October while glassing, those were in the manzanita elevations, or above 5000'.
I've kept pace with their existence in Arizona since the mid 1980's, at which time they were sparsely populating the Chirichau's. But now it's apparent they are continuing to migrate throughout southern Arizona, and in rather large numbers too.