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Gut Pile and Bone Yard Thread 2020


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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.

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Golden eagle with young bald on the right.

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Ravens

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6 juvenile bald eagles together.

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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.

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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

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Bald Eagle and American Crows

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Fisher

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Grey Fox

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Minx on left side behind sapling

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Bunch of crows

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