Eagles

[cqaigy2]

My guess is to anchor the carcass. Otherwise it would get dragged around.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

My guess is to anchor the carcass. Otherwise it would get dragged around.

Yeah, that's kinda what I thought, but why would any one care?

 

[JethroB]

My guess is to anchor the carcass. Otherwise it would get dragged around.

To keep it in camera range I suppose.

 

[MossRoad]

FROM POST #1

"...Retrieved a Deer carcass from the highway near me and staked it down in my CRP field with a game camera. ..."

 

[Citydude]

FROM POST #1

"...Retrieved a Deer carcass from the highway near me and staked it down in my CRP field with a game camera. ..."

Shows my reading comprehension skills doesn't it?

 

[Hay Dude]

Shows my reading comprehension skills doesn't it?

Youre a good man Citydude. No worries

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Shows my reading comprehension skills doesn't it?

Here's what I read:

While I agree with Hay Dude's assessment, this Red Tailed Hawk took the wiser road and pigged out on roadkill Deer.

 

[ovrszd]

You have to stake the carcass or the coyotes move it out of range. Good analysis for those that figured that out.

In my experience it requires two stakes to keep it in place. I don't try to drive them thru bone. So as the feeding progresses the skeleton loses it's integrity. With one stake it still gets moved.

I'm going to go unstake it and turn it over tomorrow. I think there's a few meals left on the lower side.

 

[Hay Dude]

2 of our barn cats just killed. Coyote suspected, but 1 cat has been disemboweled. I was in farm tractor and found one 200 yards from barn this way, but strangely, fresh coyote scat nearby cat carcass . Coyote wouldnt kill a barn cat this way. Did it stop by and sniff around the cat and the scat is just a coincidence? Cat killed by another cat? Other cat disappeared without a trace.
Putting goats in barn for their safety.

 

[BoylermanCT]

We lost a kitten a few years ago, and contacted animal control in case anyone had turned her in, and he said bobcats take a high number of cats and he guessed that is what happened. We do have bobcats in the area, I see them a few times a year and get regular pictures of them on my trails. We have the very rare bald eagle too. Saw one flying alongside the road a couple of years ago a couple miles from my place. Majestic birds.

 

[ovrszd]

Oddly, predators tend to eat the bowels first. I'll lean toward a bird kill. Would have to be at least Hawk size. Interesting how Mother Nature operates.

 

[Hay Dude]

Oddly, predators tend to eat the bowels first. I'll lean toward a bird kill. Would have to be at least Hawk size. Interesting how Mother Nature operates.

Would like to agree, but found cat at dawn. Saw cat alive right at nightfall night before. Usually bird predators strap on a feed bag in daylight (except owl). It was definitely killed at night. Would an owl take on a large cat, disembowel like that?

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I've seen hoards of bald eagles at a dump, easy pickins for them there...

I've also taken my share of picts of them while on hunting trips ect.., like this,

Here's one I like a lot,

I've walked up on eagles when it's raining hard, that were on the ground and so wet they couldn't fly. They really weren't all that worried about their own safety even though they couldn't fly...

SR

 

[ovrszd]

SR's comment about the Eagle's lack of concern reminds of a story, bird related.

Years ago I was driving down a dirt road with my young Boys just cruising around. Open pasture on the right side. Heavy brushed fencerow on the left. Came over a hill and there was a Tom Turkey in the road. Started doing the typical Turkey thing of darting around trying to figure out what it should do. I sped up. Just before I got there it ran into the brushy fencerow. Slid to a halt, jumped out and ran into the brush. The turkey was so alarmed that it was trying to run thru a woven wire fence. It would hit the fence, bounce backwards, hit it again, repeat. I dived on it just as hit bounced off the fence. Bad idea. That Turkey flogged me, spurred me and at least once pecked me. I immediately let loose. It ran back out into the open roadway and discovered it could fly.

I can't imagine grabbing a live Eagle.....

 

[Sawyer Rob]

SR's comment about the Eagle's lack of concern reminds of a story, bird related. I can't imagine grabbing a live Eagle.....

When I walked up on the wet eagles, I was on Kodiak Island, about 10-12 miles back in the mountains trapping beaver, hunting deer and looking for bears. As I walked closer they (two of them) opened their wings and lunged at me, didn't look like anything I wanted to tangle with, so I just watched them and took picts from close range.

Once the rain let up and they dried a bit, they flew up on a low branch on a tree, to finish drying out. I moved on to bigger and better things. lol

SR

 

[ovrszd]

When I walked up on the wet eagles, I was on Kodiak Island, about 10-12 miles back in the mountains trapping beaver, hunting deer and looking for bears. As I walked closer they (two of them) opened their wings and lunged at me, didn't look like anything I wanted to tangle with, so I just watched them and took picts from close range.

Once the rain let up and they dried a bit, they flew up on a low branch on a tree, to finish drying out. I moved on to bigger and better things. lol

SR

We have to understand that wildlife is positive you are there to kill it. So they respond accordingly. Just as we would.

 

[MossRoad]

SR's comment about the Eagle's lack of concern reminds of a story, bird related.

Years ago I was driving down a dirt road with my young Boys just cruising around. Open pasture on the right side. Heavy brushed fencerow on the left. Came over a hill and there was a Tom Turkey in the road. Started doing the typical Turkey thing of darting around trying to figure out what it should do. I sped up. Just before I got there it ran into the brushy fencerow. Slid to a halt, jumped out and ran into the brush. The turkey was so alarmed that it was trying to run thru a woven wire fence. It would hit the fence, bounce backwards, hit it again, repeat. I dived on it just as hit bounced off the fence. Bad idea. That Turkey flogged me, spurred me and at least once pecked me. I immediately let loose. It ran back out into the open roadway and discovered it could fly.

I can't imagine grabbing a live Eagle.....

Gotta ask... why did you tackle that turkey? Just got to know. :laughing:

 

[buck12]

SR's comment about the Eagle's lack of concern reminds of a story, bird related.

Years ago I was driving down a dirt road with my young Boys just cruising around. Open pasture on the right side. Heavy brushed fencerow on the left. Came over a hill and there was a Tom Turkey in the road. Started doing the typical Turkey thing of darting around trying to figure out what it should do. I sped up. Just before I got there it ran into the brushy fencerow. Slid to a halt, jumped out and ran into the brush. The turkey was so alarmed that it was trying to run thru a woven wire fence. It would hit the fence, bounce backwards, hit it again, repeat. I dived on it just as hit bounced off the fence. Bad idea. That Turkey flogged me, spurred me and at least once pecked me. I immediately let loose. It ran back out into the open roadway and discovered it could fly.

I can't imagine grabbing a live Eagle.....

I am a turkey hunter. One of the first things I do when I shoot a turkey is run to it and put my boot on the head until it quits flopping. They can flop away or even run away after you shoot them.

Years ago a buddy picked one up by the head after he shot it. It spurred him all over his mid section.

 

[ovrszd]

Gotta ask... why did you tackle that turkey? Just got to know. :laughing:

I was 35 years old and thought I could tackle anything. :ashamed:

 

[ovrszd]

I am a turkey hunter. One of the first things I do when I shoot a turkey is run to it and put my boot on the head until it quits flopping. They can flop away or even run away after you shoot them.

Years ago a buddy picked one up by the head after he shot it. It spurred him all over his mid section.

After shooting a Buck Deer I straddled it, pulled it's head back by the antler and started to cut it's throat. It jumped up. Lucky I didn't stab myself with the knife. Never did that again.