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I finally managed to get this video uploaded to youtube. It shows a first winter golden eagle coming aggressively into my research site. It harasses the bald eagle on the bait while ignoring the 2 perched on the right. Notice how freaked out the ravens are after the golden eagle goes out of sight. That is pretty normal in these situations.
 



That's bada$$ !! Love the sound of wings flapping too. Great video ! Thanks for sharing !!!
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Finally got some close up fox action last night.

I'm just getting started trying to stitch these 10 second night video clips together so bare with me until I get the hang of this video stuff.

Almost brave enough to feast at this cam set now...., but still needs to take a few more steps!

 

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And one more from a WGI cam at another location.

The fox have been scent marking this stump lately, so I just got a cam up over it.

I dug a dirt hole at the base of the stump and baited with some small hunks of rotten deer flesh and dog treats, and then covered everything back up. This guy wasn't a fan of the bright red flash, but that didn't stop him from hanging out in the spotlight for quite a while.

No sound with this camera, so I added some youtube jams,lol

 

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12 minutes ago, turkeyfeathers said:

Cool videos Wooly. We all want to know why those horns are still attached and not in your basement or shed yet though.

I just put the skull there as a prop, and to have some fresh red meat showing to anything that flies overhead.

Hopefully something will pick it clean so I don't have to screw around with bringing it back and  cookin' it!

Not gonna worry about that one too much if it grows legs and runs off with a predator. Actually kinda hoping to catch that on one of the vids.

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On ‎2‎/‎13‎/‎2017 at 10:25 AM, Curmudgeon said:

I've been quite frustrated because my research site hasn't photographed any golden eagles this season. I still have 2 weeks to go. If I don't get one on camera, it will be the first year since 2010. Anyway, there are golden eagles here. I was going through video and found this one harassing a bald eagle. I don't know how to get a still out of a video so I took screen shots. The bugger was here but didn't feed. Another showed up Saturday, this time an adult, when a photographer was in the blind. He said it landed 50 feet from the bait behind some brush then flew off while being bombed by ravens. Ravens behave very differently towards the 2 species of eagle. They are very afraid of goldens, and hardly concerned about balds. I can't see the site from the house but ravens erupt regularly in large numbers, suggesting something dangerous - like a golden eagle is around. The goldens may just be hunting ravens. We've had them eaten before.

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Curmudgeon, just checked my carcass cam last week. First time doing it. It was up at my camp in Meredith, Delaware County. I had 2 goldens and at least 1 bald eagle. Besides the crows,ravens,grey fox,coyotes. Had the cam out since thanksgiving, eagle pics were late December I believe.

Love the bottom pic.

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14 hours ago, pistolp71 said:

Curmudgeon, just checked my carcass cam last week. First time doing it. It was up at my camp in Meredith, Delaware County. I had 2 goldens and at least 1 bald eagle. Besides the crows,ravens,grey fox,coyotes. Had the cam out since thanksgiving, eagle pics were late December I believe.

Love the bottom pic.

Pistol -

The late December goldens might still be migrants but they could be winter residents. Please post some of your photos.

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Thanks. Great shots. Keep them coming.

The dark bird in your photo is a first winter, juvenile bald eagle. They are easily confused with golden eagles. I am including a couple of photos goldens and bald togethers. Note the blond head and nape on the golden in the first photo. They also have considerably smaller heads, proportioned like a red-tailed hawk. Bald eagles have big, sea eagle heads. This golden is young, hence the white base on its tail. Adults are all dark, as in the second photo. The close bird in the second photo is a golden we put a tracking device on in 2014. The device - which is visible in the photo - failed. I can ID her by comparing her tail to old photographs. Too bad you can't see her head. You can see how similar the plumage is.

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Here are also some of raven remains, collateral damage from having scavengers concentrated when some of them are predators.

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Thanks Curmudgeon. Apparently need to work on my raptor identification. Both birds in bottom pic juvi bald eagles also? I have to go through my pics, I thought I had a eagle that looked like a golden, standing next to a mature bald, and was much bigger. On a side note, I was out in south texas hog hunting last week and saw many of those Caracara eagles. Pretty cool.

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