Gut pile trail cam pics? (pic heavy)

[dakids]

Is anybody setting a cam on your gut piles?  I have 2 cams out now and have a couply of good pics already.  I'll post some later.

[dakids]

Here are a few from the first card pull.







Same bird from last year, only not as good.

[glenn57]

those are awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[The General]

yes very nice

[Fawkinnae]

That fox is gorgeous!

[glenn57]

That fox is gorgeous!

i know, seen that too!!!!!!

[dew2]

 Do you know the bird in pics 1- 4- 5 is a Golden eagle?? Not seen to often here even on the prairies edge.

[dakids]

i'm pretty sure it is.  The hawk is an American Rough legged hawk.

[O man]

  Sweet 

[Goosepond Monster]

Very cool.  Thanks for sharing.

[corky]

Do you know the bird in pics 1- 4- 5 is a Golden eagle?? Not seen to often here even on the prairies edge.

Pretty sure they are young bald eagles.  Bald eagles don't get the white head and tail until about 5 years of age.

[wildlifeminnesota]

Do you know the bird in pics 1- 4- 5 is a Golden eagle?? Not seen to often here even on the prairies edge.

Pretty sure they are young bald eagles.  Bald eagles don't get the white head and tail until about 5 years of age.

4 years

[Fawkinnae]

This got me thinking. I had always heard 5 years. See Wikipedia at the bottom.

http://www.baldeagleinfo.com/
Color - Both male and female adult bald eagles have a blackish-brown back and breast; a white head, neck, and tail; and yellow feet and beak.
    Juvenile bald eagles are a mixture of brown and white; with a black beak in young birds. The adult plumage develops when they are sexually mature. It takes about five years for their head and tail feathers to gradually turn white.
    The bald eagle is the only eagle confined to North America. There are no other large blackish-brown birds with a white head and tail in North American.

http://www.eagles.org/vu-study/biology/development.php
The coloring of the juvenile bald eagle is very similar to the coloring of the adult golden eagle. In fact, many juvenile bald eagles are mistaken for golden eagles. Even the famous naturalist and artist, John James Audubon, painted a portrait of the "Washington Sea Eagle" that today is recognized as the juvenile bald eagle.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bald_Eagle
The plumage of the immature is brown, speckled with white until the fifth (rarely fourth, very rarely third) year, when it reaches sexual maturity.[2][3] Immature Bald Eagles are distinguishable from the Golden Eagle in that the former has a more protruding head with a larger beak, straighter edged wings which are held flat (not slightly raised) and with a stiffer wing beat, and feathers which do not completely cover the legs.[5]