[Bristol-Birds] capturing digital images of Golden Eagles in region closed for season
- From: "Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Bristol-birds" <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 18:18:28 -0500
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
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