Skyler and Clay Nestor of Glenwood had an interesting weekend of hunting recently.  Fourteen-year old Skyler, Clay’s son (above), shot a white coyote from 120 yards on his second day of hunting last weekend on the family farm. He was using a 20-gauge deer slug.  It was his only shot of the weekend and first-ever hunting.

Clay shot a white coyote earlier this fall in mid-October on the family farm.  

Clay also had a weekend to remember as he shot a white buck last Saturday.

According to grandfather, Steve Nestor, no one in the area has ever seen a white piebald buck (there have been piebald does harvested). In fact, a taxidermist from Osakis that Clay took the deer to mount, said in over 40 years, he had never seen or heard of one in this area.  The piebald condition is genetic and causes blotches of non-pigmented skin in a variety of patterns, sometimes making a deer entirely white.  It is not an albino deer, however. 

In both Japanese and Korean folklore, the white coyote is a symbol of good and is seen as a positive omen, as a stark contrast to the black coyote, which represents evil. Solid white coyotes, also known as “ghost coyotes” or “white coyotes,” are rare but not unheard of. These animals have a genetic condition called leucism, which causes a reduction in the pigmentation of their fur.