A couple weeks ago I was fortunate to take a mature doe with my shotgun during 2nd season. Since she was shot along the edge of our corn field I thought it'd be fun to set the trail camera up on the gut pile after I field dressed her to see what might come by to clean it up.
I checked my trailcam yesterday and was quite surprised to find 448 pictures! I thought for sure many of them would be from the blizzard we experienced last week. But to my surprise only 3 of them were from blowing snow.
It was no surprise that the first visitors to the entrails were a few crows. Then it didn't take long for a mature bald eagle to find the pile as well.
Then about mid-morning on the 15th of December the real garbage truck showed up! According to the pictures, this ol' boy showed up about 10:12am and sniffed around for a few minutes. The real feast started at 10:15am and by 10:20am, the whole pile was GONE!!!
I'm sure hoping that this big animal isn't an inside dog! It showed back up a few more times over the next couple days to make sure there wasn't anything left, but this dog has to have a digestive tract made of steel to handle the pile it horfed down that day!
It was an interesting card pull to say the least. The ground on our farm is now covered in almost a foot of snow or more in places and you can really see where the deer are moving. It was encouraging to see that their main travel route is taking them across the field and right under one of my treestands. I'll hope for a warmer day or two in the future where I can get out and maybe try to fill one of the two remaining bow tags I have.
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