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Beaver Carcass Trail Cam #7251702
04/25/21 05:54 PM
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At the conclusion of an extended beaver trapping weekend at the cabin I set up a trail camera over the pile of beaver carcasses. I returned to the cabin this weekend to try a little turkey hunting (sidebar: snow and wind is not good for turkey hunting) and I pulled the SD card. Wow. Within hours of setting the camera the eagles found the beaver. I had as many as 13 eagles at one time. Several immature birds that had really cool markings. By the second day, the wolves were on them. One wolf had a nasty wound on his/her rear haunch. By the next night a bear - a big, big bear - found the spot. He turned his attention to the camera and thankfully didn't crunch it into bits when he adjusted its position on the tree. A dandy of a bobcat found the spot a few days later. The wolves kept coming every day for at least a week.

I thought this was really interesting - there's a pick of a doe standing in the same spot that the wounded wolf stood 4 hours earlier. That pic has be questioning how much I blame "the wolves" for me not seeing any deer on any particular day. "Too much fresh wolf sign, there aren't any deer moving." That sort of thing.

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Re: Beaver Carcass Trail Cam [Re: deerdragger] #7251707
04/25/21 05:57 PM
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More pics. [Linked Image]
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Re: Beaver Carcass Trail Cam [Re: deerdragger] #7251720
04/25/21 06:04 PM
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Great pics.
Once the birds ring the dinner bell,it dont take long for the fur to show up.


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Re: Beaver Carcass Trail Cam [Re: deerdragger] #7251722
04/25/21 06:05 PM
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Believe I would have me a ground blind there next year.

Re: Beaver Carcass Trail Cam [Re: deerdragger] #7251733
04/25/21 06:17 PM
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Did that here for about a week. The eagles and crows would clean up a beaver carcus in a day. No animals just birds. I don't think the animals stand a chance to get any eating with birds there.

Re: Beaver Carcass Trail Cam [Re: deerdragger] #7251750
04/25/21 06:52 PM
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Wolf has a booboo. Won't put his back foot down.

Re: Beaver Carcass Trail Cam [Re: deerdragger] #7251756
04/25/21 07:03 PM
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Nice pics. What a chunck of a bear


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Re: Beaver Carcass Trail Cam [Re: deerdragger] #7251778
04/25/21 07:21 PM
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That bear has been eating well!


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Re: Beaver Carcass Trail Cam [Re: deerdragger] #7251780
04/25/21 07:22 PM
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Impressive!!!

Re: Beaver Carcass Trail Cam [Re: deerdragger] #7251869
04/25/21 09:07 PM
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On my carcass lines for cats I just give up once the ravens or turkey vultures have discovered a carcass.


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Re: Beaver Carcass Trail Cam [Re: deerdragger] #7251875
04/25/21 09:11 PM
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You weren't kidding about the size of that bear!

Re: Beaver Carcass Trail Cam [Re: beaverpeeler] #7251895
04/25/21 09:32 PM
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Originally Posted by beaverpeeler
On my carcass lines for cats I just give up once the ravens or turkey vultures have discovered a carcass.


I want the ravens ringing the dinner bell.
There are a couple ways to keep them working a jackpot without them being able to clean it up completely.
Keeps them around for a long time calling in fur.


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Re: Beaver Carcass Trail Cam [Re: deerdragger] #7251977
04/26/21 12:51 AM
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My guess is that works up in the far north better than in the mild maritime west. A 45 lb beaver carcass is gone in a heartbeat once they get on it. I can count the amount of times a cat has worked a bird-worked carcass on one hand. Seems like they also give up.


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Re: Beaver Carcass Trail Cam [Re: deerdragger] #7252143
04/26/21 10:44 AM
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Here I've had to go to much larger baits. I had trail camera of coyotes cleaning an entire beaver in one sitting in minutes barely hours. We don't stay froze long enough. I prefer road killed deer, what's left of deer after butchering, or if you're lucky enough a few dead cows. I'm all for the birds finding them. They definitely know what they are there for. Sometimes I drop a long distance call lure when I start one up, give the predators a little head start.. Snow shows they still visit long after the last baits are cleaned up.

Those are some cool pictures for sure! We don't have to worry about those big black things around here. Was recently a wolf shot not too far from me, might have to deal with them at some point if they keep expanding.


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Re: Beaver Carcass Trail Cam [Re: deerdragger] #7252152
04/26/21 11:10 AM
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When I am using a big bait at a wolf jackpot,i cover it with substantial sized logs.The ravens can work it a bit in between the logs but cannot clean it up.They will keep trying for a long time.You know when the wolves hit it because the logs will be scattered.
Some other trappers I know use a 45 gallon drum full of bait(moose bones and butcher scraps) and laid on its side and covered with a moosehide with one end open so the ravens can work it.They cannot clean it up but keep trying working it from the semi-open end.
When I use a single beaver carcass at a fox/cat jackpot,i will hang one or two off the ground a couple of feet low under a thick evergreen and brush it in a bit.Ravens will work at the bottom part of these but cannot get to the upper part or the one carcass on the backside.But they keep trying so the auditory/visual call lure along with the olfactory call will work for a long time.

You dont need a whole lot of ravens working a bait to call in predators.
As a matter of fact whiskeyjacks(small birds)that cache meat are one of the best visual attractors for cats fox and mustelids,since they fly back and forth all day for as long as the carcass remains available.

In frozen conditions the hanging carcass needs to be feathered with an axe.This improves its attraction for the smaller birds and cats.

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Re: Beaver Carcass Trail Cam [Re: deerdragger] #7252164
04/26/21 11:32 AM
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Great pics. I often anchor a few beaver carcasses down so I can watch them out the window. Very common to see eagles, ravens, hawks, vultures, coyotes, bobcat, fox and bear.

The ravens can get impatient at times.....

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Re: Beaver Carcass Trail Cam [Re: deerdragger] #7252167
04/26/21 11:44 AM
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Those all sound like fine ideas Boco. I guess I just haven't worried about it since I am running so many carcasses. Once a bobcat finds it he covers it so bird problem is eliminated.


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Re: Beaver Carcass Trail Cam [Re: deerdragger] #7252170
04/26/21 12:00 PM
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Nice pics, and Bear!!


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Re: Beaver Carcass Trail Cam [Re: deerdragger] #7252221
04/26/21 02:01 PM
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Looks like a really nice bobcat that came in!

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Re: Beaver Carcass Trail Cam [Re: deerdragger] #7252234
04/26/21 02:41 PM
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Down here, I bury them about a foot deep, then cover with loose dirt, keeps birds away, and looks like a bomb went off when the coyotes find them.

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