Being a newcomer to living with coyotes this is very interesting. You-all know that with Disney and all down here, it is a fanatsy land. Our deer breed over a long period, as proved by seeing spoted fawns mostly in October but I have seen them through Febuary. Other parts of FL they breed at varing times per biologist/FL's FWC. Prey is plentiful here, deer/fawns, rabbits, rats, fox, coons, turkeys, gut piles wounded deer and dead deer, hogs or whatever some people shoot and leave. They will even eat watermellons, truth.
Ok, I live in the N.W. tip of Florida about a mile off of a North/South highway, there are a few houses toward the hwy and 2 below me. We back up to 21,048 acre Blue Water Creek Management area/ tree farm. Road runs east and west, deadends at the BWC gate 1/2 mi. east of me.
Most nights we hear coyotes in three different directions. When one "assembly" of them start the others chime in. One "assemly" is usually N.W. of here, about 1/2-3/4 mi. no houses on hwy there. Sometimes they sound like they may be across the hwy.
One "assembly" is straight S. anywhere from 1/2-1.5 mi. Usually on the back side (east) of a 300 acre field.
The other group moves around inside of the mgt. area. Any where from N. to E. North they are usually around some now dry ponds and from 200yds to 1/2 mi away. E. they can be a long ways off or occasionally within 300yds. They may howl, bark, and yip at any time of night, rarely in daylight. No set time like 1st dark etc. If one "assembly" starts almost always the others will to.
Now don't hold it against me but I grew up in N. FL with a dog hunting Pa and it sounds like maybe up to 16-12 per "assembly" (hard to tell the way they carry on)at times. Maybe they change their voice? They are usually close together but some times we hear one that is out from the rest. Sometimes they sound like (if they were dogs) that they were catching something? They are rarely seen and very few are hit on the roads. They are in every other nook and cranny in these parts. Nobody is hunting them in these parts but a few are killed by deer hunters. Most farmers don't mind them becouse they eat deer which eat crops. Not a lot of ranching right here. I am really enjoying your discussion on this subject. Thanks.