Gut Pile and Bone Yard Thread 2020

[Curmudgeon]

Use this thread for gut pile and bone yard photos this season.

I haven't killed a deer yet but I slaughtered 3 lambs this week. I dumped the offal and butchering scraps late on Friday.  My good cameras are looking for deer but I had this junky Wildgame Innovations thing someone gave me so I put it on the pile. Within 24 hours 9 eagles had fed along with uncountable ravens and crows. There are at least 6 young bald eagles, a sub-adult bald eagle and a full adult bald eagle. A golden eagle also spent a lot of time feeding. It was all cleaned up in a little over 24 hours.

This adult bald eagle was looking up just before a bunch of young balds landed.

Golden eagle with young bald on the right.

Ravens

6 juvenile bald eagles together.

[GreeneHunter]

Makes me want to pick up another trail cam from wally world just for any potential gut pile I leave behind !

[ny hunter]

Great pics,,,,,,,

[Curmudgeon]

1 hour ago, GreeneHunter said:

Makes me want to pick up another trail cam from wally world just for any potential gut pile I leave behind !

Do it. It's great fun. 

[Curmudgeon]

I butchered a deer this week. Lots of red-tailed hawks, ravens, crows, red fox and a coyote at the bone yard. One of the redtails is the borealis subspecies from the far north. It is about as dark as eastern redtails get. The first 2 photos are the borealis bird. The third photo is a normal eastern redtail.

I didn't put a camera on the gut pile because the deer left the property. I don't put cameras on land I don't own.

[BizCT]

cool pics

[ny hunter]

Love the pics...

[helmut in the bush]

These threads are actually more interesting than deer pics, I love it when the family Golden Retriever stops to chow down, and that Eagle, as majestic as he is, is nothing more than a buzzard with a white head.

[GreeneHunter]

2 hours ago, helmut in the bush said:

and that Eagle, as majestic as he is, is nothing more than a buzzard with a white head.

You leave all our former Presidents alone !    LOL

[helmut in the bush]

You leave all our former Presidents alone !    LOL

Our former Vice President?


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[Larry]

What no Bigfoot!

[Curmudgeon]

I pulled the camera off of last weekend's gut pile. I got 13 scavenging species plus a deer. Scavengers included raven, crows, jays, Downie Woodpecker, Red-bellied Woodpecker, grey and red fox, fisher, minx, raccoons (2), Red-tailed Hawk and Bald Eagle. Here's a sampling.

Coons

Bald Eagle and American Crows

Fisher

Grey Fox

Minx on left side behind sapling

Red Fox

Bunch of crows

 

[ny hunter]

love this.........THANKS FOR POSTING...

[greensider]

[Curmudgeon]

Nice shots. It looks like there is a 4th red-tailed hawk coming in for a landing in the last photo.

[ny hunter]

Great pics...........

[Fletch]

Some good gut pics!



A couple different yote then the neighbors mutt


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[ny hunter]

Love the pics.............

[Curmudgeon]

Excellent. 

[Curmudgeon]

Here's some shots from the bone yard. Note the wing prints in the 30" of fresh snow.

Edited January 4, 2021 by Curmudgeon

[ny hunter]

Love these pics....Thanks for posting...

[greensider]

Today’s bait pile check