Today, they are found in all of Ohio's 88 counties. A bowhunter survey, conducted annually by the Division of Wildlife, indicated 3.8 coyotes seen for every thousand hours of time that bowhunters spent in the field in 1990. In 1998, survey results showed 9.4 coyotes per thousand hours of obser-vation. Using corridors along waterways as travel lanes into new territories, coyotes have been turning up in the most urban of places. For example, coyotes have been removed from the Cleve-land, Ohio metro area for the past three years, and recently a group of coyotes was seen in the Kettering, Ohio area near a shopping mall and major roadway.
Coyotes are both predators and scavengers, and mainly nocturnal.
Even fruit from domestic fruit trees can provide food for them. Coyotes will eat just about anything. They are true opportunists. A coyote's diet consists of rodents, rabbits, carrion, livestock and poultry, vegetation, miscellaneous animals, and a few insects. However, coyotes have also been known to eat pet food, garbage, fruits, and watermelons.