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[H&S Archer]

I put a trail cam out on my last deers gut {same day as kill} pile in November and here is what ate it! This hawk cam back three days and work at it. Nothing else showed up and just the stomach contents were left. Go figure that it was a bit of a surprise to me.

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[Pronghorn]

I think you need a new trail cam I can not see anything in that picture.

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Pronghorn, on 04 December 2011 - 08:13 PM, said:

I think you need a new trail cam I can not see anything in that picture.

beautiful hawk.Bottom of pic.

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[Sporty87]

Around here there would be a bunch of buzzards on it.  But that is a beautiful picture of a hawk.

[huntingal]

H&S, what an interesting idea. I have always wondered what exactly comes into the gut piles we leave. Often they are gone over night. I know we have buzzards, I've seen them and I knew we had a red tailed hawk cause I've seen her nest and her flying around. Other than that I figured fox, coons, skunks, or armadillos most likely would come in to dine. The strangest observation I have made was seeing huge crows coming in to the feeder corn. I wonder now if crows come into gut piles.

[Sopchoppy]

huntingal, on 05 December 2011 - 10:48 AM, said:

H&S, what an interesting idea. I have always wondered what exactly comes into the gut piles we leave. Often they are gone over night. I know we have buzzards, I've seen them and I knew we had a red tailed hawk cause I've seen her nest and her flying around. Other than that I figured fox, coons, skunks, or armadillos most likely would come in to dine. The strangest observation I have made was seeing huge crows coming in to the feeder corn. I wonder now if crows come into gut piles.

Crows are usually the first scavengers to show up, then buzzards during daylight. If there are any coyotes around, they'll be there soon. On a segment of North American Whitetail, they had a camera on a gut pile and a doe actually came and licked the pile, they also had one showing a doe eating part of the gut pile. They said the doe was emaciated, but it looked healthy to me.

[rwmccor]

Its funny what deer will eat and do when there half starving.Last february  in Michigans u.P,
We were walleye fishing and after catching 7 or 8 we cleaned them and decided to toss the skin
and guts on the frozen river behind the cabin for the eagles.well thee eagles didnt get them a
Big doe and her twins that had been hanging around begging ate them.first time i've even seen anything like it.
There was 3 ft of snow and it was -20 to -35 at nite.These are a few pictures from our outing.put hay out for them also we felt sorry for them after all hunting season was over  

[H&S Archer]

Great pics. One thing I really like doing is buying a truck load of sugar beats{late December} and having my wife and kid throw then all over out property as I drive around. Dee don't fight as much and the sugar beats get quality nutrition to there stomach. This years its not going to happen becuase of the Round up Reday beats and fines to any sale of them. Next year I will have it figured out.

[Vortexter]

I had skunk on a gut pile and good thing I had a light in the early morning hours. I also had a big buck visit a doe gut pile 30 yards from my stand. He is in the freezer now. I used a trail camera last year and got about 100 pictured of crows.