Bald Eagle on Deer Carcass Video

Here's the first footage from the motion activated camera being on video mode. No coyotes but a Bald Eagle and crow did show up for a snack. When we went to set up the camera there was also a downy woodpecker eating fat off the deer. This isn't the best video, kind of a butt shot. The camera only records for 10 seconds and then waits one minute before taking another video. There was no second video so the eagle must not have stayed long.



~Kirk

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Bald Eagle Feeding at Dead Deer

I hinted a week back that I had seen eagle tracks at our deer carcass. I was hoping to catch the eagle on the motion activated camera but so far had been unsuccessful. I partly wanted to confirm which kind of eagle it was. Golden Eagles from the Ontario area come down to Minnesota in the winter to feed on deer carcasses. No such luck, this is a Bald Eagle. Pretty cool though. All of these photos were taken last Friday at about 2:30 in the afternoon. I cropped them in close and it is pretty clear that the trail camera has some pretty bad chromatic aberration in the lens which leads to the red and blue halos around the eagle. I suppose with the white head that becomes patriotic. Oh, and the blood on the beak is red too.

As usual, click on any image for a larger view.







~Kirk

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