When I set up baited trail cameras (mainly in winter) I get a wide variety of wildlife species. I think I'm up to 18 different species identified on camera while using the baits. I've been using roadkilled deer (both mulies and white-tails) or beaver carcasses for bait. Besides the ever-present magpies, golden eagles are probably the most common scavenger. Often times, there are multiple eagles on the baits, which leads to some interesting interactions.






Hope you enjoy this week's selection...

Jack

Baited trail cams , like a box of chocolate...you never know what you're gonna get

Goldens , in the sun, have a lovely detailed colour pattern on their feathers.

There are some around here too, though the Baldies are more numerous, because of the big river .

Thanks for the share, Jack.

White eagle on Chirikof Island. I saw him have a dozen times in about a month and a half.

Mark-

Cool photo, man! Might have been impossible to discern, but could you tell if the white eagle was a bald, a Steller's, or a white-tail sea eagle?

The head profile sure looks different from a Bald
interesting the brown tail feathers or is that some carrion it is standing on.

is brown a throwback from black in isaballine colour in birds ?

Jack, we saw it a couple times flying with an adult bald eagle. The two would follow each other when you saw them together. I knew where there were about a half dozen eagle nests. I never saw the white one around a nest. It was neat to see. I took that picture through a set of binoculars for a telephoto lenses. It was about 150 yards from me. I t had been sitting on drift wood along thee beach and flew up there and landed. I saw a odd eagle when I was on Rootok. I walked out of the weather port and it sailed past at about 75 yards. It went around the corner of a cliff about 100 yards away and I never saw it again.
North50 It had a little brown on it and was more of a cream color than a bright white. We found a wing feather and turned it into the refuge.