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Golden Eagle
« on: December 15, 2007, 11:44:18 PM »
  These pictures were taken with my homemade trail camera. The camera is a Sony DSC-W55 7.2 megapixel. Pics were taken in the Blue Mountain foothills in eastern Washington. Camera was set up over a whitetail deer carcass.






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Re: Golden Eagle
« Reply #1 on: December 16, 2007, 08:18:46 AM »
Great pictures!

How about a little more info on the homebrew?
What controller board, case, aprox cost?




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Re: Golden Eagle
« Reply #2 on: December 16, 2007, 04:07:50 PM »
those are the best trail cam picture I HAVE EVER SEEN!   Great shots.  Nice mature eagle.  Sisu, I think you just found the shot Pat was looking for, or bird anyways.  AWESOME!!!!!!!!!

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Re: Golden Eagle
« Reply #3 on: December 16, 2007, 10:38:34 PM »
  Billy, It cost about $240 to build this camera. I have just finished my fourth one. Pix Universal Controller Board and pelican 1060 micro case. You cannot buy a camera like this, you have to build it. I will post pics of the camera itself tomorrow, and more pics from the field later on.
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Re: Golden Eagle
« Reply #4 on: December 17, 2007, 07:24:01 AM »
Great pics, and I agree with Bone that is the best trail cam pic as far as quality and for 240.00 pretty darn reasonable.  Lets see some more!!!
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Re: Golden Eagle
« Reply #5 on: December 17, 2007, 08:14:50 AM »
How about an article on building the setup.  I would certainly be interested!

GREAT SHOTS.....

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Re: Golden Eagle
« Reply #6 on: December 17, 2007, 08:17:17 AM »
Absolutely the best trail cam pics I've ever seen.  Very cool.
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Re: Golden Eagle
« Reply #7 on: December 17, 2007, 12:12:35 PM »
Those are awesome pics!!  I too would be interested in hearing about putting together this setup.

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Re: Golden Eagle
« Reply #8 on: December 17, 2007, 10:33:47 PM »
  My camera is averaging about 450 pics of the eagles every day. My camera battery is dead then. My low is 432, and the high is 479. I will post some of the better ones. Here is one from today. There are five eagles now.  This camera is three miles from our house. I have to check it daily to change the battery. If this continues, by Sunday, I will have over 5,000 pics of the eagles. The eagles are getting accustomed to me showing up to check the camera. They don't fly away any more. They just fly up and perch in a tree and wait until I leave.
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Re: Golden Eagle
« Reply #9 on: December 17, 2007, 11:12:59 PM »
FUN!

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Re: Golden Eagle
« Reply #10 on: December 18, 2007, 05:29:41 PM »
at that rate your gonna have to throw another carcass out there soon.
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Re: Golden Eagle
« Reply #11 on: January 16, 2008, 05:56:59 AM »
So what is the scoop on the homemade trail cam? Any help on how we can build one? Thanks Keith
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Re: Golden Eagle
« Reply #12 on: January 16, 2008, 01:08:07 PM »
I hunt/fish the area that you live and I have seen eagles on several occasions. My question is, how do I determine the difference between a Golden Eagle and an immature Baldy? I always thought that an immature baldy looked similar to an adult Goldie...Maybe I have seen more Goldies than I thought.

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Re: Golden Eagle
« Reply #13 on: January 16, 2008, 05:09:44 PM »
nice
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Re: Golden Eagle
« Reply #14 on: January 16, 2008, 05:42:04 PM »
Awesome looking birds.

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Re: Golden Eagle
« Reply #15 on: January 16, 2008, 07:30:28 PM »
Great pics!! Those are really cool, great setup you got there.
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Re: Golden Eagle
« Reply #16 on: January 16, 2008, 09:22:05 PM »
Quote
. My question is, how do I determine the difference between a Golden Eagle and an immature Baldy

i think the baldies start out white and turn the almost black color you see them as when mature. so the juveys bodies are more white and black thn the brown color of a golden. check out the pics on this site...you can see what i mean better.
http://www.alaskanalpinetreks.com/ImageGallery/Eagles_2/Index.html
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Re: Golden Eagle
« Reply #17 on: January 16, 2008, 10:33:47 PM »
Great pictures. would of loved to have been there to see it in real, But those pictures...Man! great!!!

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Re: Golden Eagle
« Reply #18 on: January 16, 2008, 11:34:43 PM »
Like Jackelope was stating, here are some that show it as a close up the differences between Immature and Mature Adult... Plus the beaks of the mature are yellow and the others are blackish, not sure when they change, at what age???

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Re: Golden Eagle
« Reply #19 on: January 17, 2008, 08:26:03 AM »
On the fly, I still think I will have trouble ID'ing, but thanks for the info. Those goldies sure are sweet.

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Re: Golden Eagle
« Reply #20 on: January 18, 2008, 06:39:10 AM »
Great photos. Would l also like to see info on making one.

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Re: Golden Eagle
« Reply #21 on: January 18, 2008, 01:43:32 PM »
 Very cool!

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Re: Golden Eagle
« Reply #22 on: January 24, 2008, 11:53:00 AM »
Jackalope, he have it backwards, look again at your link.
Bald eagles do not get their white head until they reach maturity (two or more years old) When you watch Bald eagles in the nest the babies actually look bigger then the parents do with their dark heads.
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Re: Golden Eagle
« Reply #23 on: January 24, 2008, 05:10:14 PM »
I thought they had to be 5 to get a white head?

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Re: Golden Eagle
« Reply #24 on: February 01, 2008, 09:36:51 AM »
Great pics!  :tup:
And they are mean too! I can't remember where I got these I think a freind emailed them to me. I'm sure you guys have seen these before, but here is a pretty impressive display of a eagle running a yote off the carcass. I was told it was a Golden but it looks darker than your pictures  :dunno: oh well cool pics none the less!



 





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Re: Golden Eagle
« Reply #25 on: February 01, 2008, 09:47:30 AM »
I thought they had to be 5 to get a white head?
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Re: Golden Eagle
« Reply #26 on: February 01, 2008, 11:26:24 AM »
can't tell whether they are immature balds or goldens, but that is a fox and not a coyote........... Unless I am really screwed up today! :P
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Re: Golden Eagle
« Reply #27 on: February 01, 2008, 11:32:38 AM »
They kill a lot of deer also, people don't realize that.  Two times I have watched a golden eagle take down and kill a healthy deer. Both times the attack was similar. 6-8 deer feeding on a steep hillside, the eagle just started diving at them until the deer start moving up hill at a fast pace, soon he will get one separated a little and that's the one he will concentrate on.  Of course the deer is trying to go up hill with the bunch, but the eagle just keeps hitting him and when the deer gets exhausted and gets jerked clear down the bird starts eating on it's eyes, the deer will get up a few times until it gets to tired and gets eaten alive.  

I was cutting hay one time, there was a doe and fawn by the edge of the field when I went to lunch, when I come back a hour later the doe was still there and her fawn was almost all eaten by a bold eagle, the eagle was so full it almost could not get air borne.  I'm sure the eagle killed that fawn.

There's lots of both kinds of eagles in the Methow Valley, they mostly stay on the river getting steelhead and spawning salmon also a lot of ducks, then when the fish are gone the eagles move to the hills and eat deer.  You can always tell if there's fish in the river by the way the big birds ack.

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Re: Golden Eagle
« Reply #28 on: February 01, 2008, 09:43:35 PM »
You're right on second look it's a fox ...sorry  :) but I don't think it would matter if it were a yote the result would be the same, that eagle would still have it's way!
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Re: Golden Eagle
« Reply #29 on: February 01, 2008, 09:53:53 PM »
Sweet pics guys! Those eagles are bad asses! :o
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