A very healthy Coyote at Orchard Bog in Shady Valley, 29 Jan 2012 photo by The Nature Conservancy Many of the camera trap sites for Golden Eagle in the Appalachian Mountain project have closed down but a few more northern ones are still running. It finally turned out that the baited digital camera at Grayson Highlands State Park just east of Damascus and Marion, VA did, in fact, have two Golden Eagles as determined from the digital images captured there. Unfortunately, the deer carcasses at the upper end of the park completely disappeared so the project is winding down. Biologists and park personnel were successful, as previously reported, with capturing one eagle and getting a transmitter and bird band placed on it. Road killed deer to use for bait have been extremely difficult to get due to the less harsh winter we've all experienced. As far as I know, at this hour, all regional sites in the area have closed and cameras brought in from the field. In effect, the season for capturing digital images of Golden Eagles in the Southern Appalachians is, for all practical purposes, over for the 2011-12 winter season. Two Bobcats photo captured at Dickey Preserve, Shady Valley, 16 Feb 2012 photo by The Nature Conservancy Let's go birding . . . . Wallace Coffey Bristol, TN