Florida Hog Carcasses QUICKLY Picked Clean!

bigbendmarine

5 year old buck +
Few forum members may remember my "buried gut pile" share where it took visits over a 16-day period for the pile to be cleaned.

Well, this video likely marks the closing chapter of recent hog trapping efforts. With the government actually providing assistance with trapping efforts, we've trapped 70 hogs off my roughly 100 acres with the last set trapped in late April. By comparison, more recent efforts on the adjoining 4,000 acres have only resulted in sixteen hogs being trapped. So, at least for the moment, things have really slowed down.

Versus burying or burning carcasses from the last two trappings I took 2 boars with heavy taint along with bread loaf-sized piglets and guts from cleaned sows and placed them in a clearing along my pond edge.

Think I got some pretty interesting captures along with a few animated interactions between the various critters!

 
That is pretty cool to see. I hate to say it, but bald eagles are such a common occurrence now, that they are as common as the road kill.
 
That is pretty cool to see. I hate to say it, but bald eagles are such a common occurrence now, that they are as common as the road kill.
First time capturing bald eagles on trail cam down our way in North Florida, though I see them from time to time around our pond. I enjoy seeing them, but the bird that keeps me most entertained is a slightly smaller raptor... swallow-tailed kite. I've captured kites by handheld camera, but never on trail cam. They're incredibly acrobatic hunters, but rarely sit / pause anywhere long enough to do much camera triggering.
 
That is awesome!
 
That is awesome!
Thanks for the kind words, SD51555c! Not sure if you saw it on mobile or desktop, but if mobile definitely a good bit more detail visible on a desktop.
 
Very cool. I would be tempted to bury a gut pile deep near a favorite mast tree and see if it makes a difference over a year or two.
 
Thanks for sharing. It's amazing what predators can eat, something that's been laying out for days or weeks at a time, full of maggots and stinking to high heaven and they're chomping on it as happy as a drunk chowing down free peanuts at a bar, and unlike the drunk they don't even barf the next day...
 
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That was an incredible video. Nice job BigBend!!
Like wandering said, we are seeing so many eagles now they are common place. There are 4 nests within five miles of the house.
 
That was an incredible video. Nice job BigBend!!
Like wandering said, we are seeing so many eagles now they are common place. There are 4 nests within five miles of the house.


We have lots of eagles here too. I have been predicting that they are going to get to "nuisance status" in the years to come due to numbers. ....kina like coyotes or hogs. Interesting video.
 
I have thrown quite a few hogs out at the edge of a slough and have yet to get a gator to eat one. I have seen multiple gators in the slough. I almost always get a bobcat or two investigating at night, even though they wont eat, and often an otter or two - but they wont eat, either. My coyotes will drag the carcasses away if I dont tie them down.
 
That’s an incredible video! Thanks for sharing it! Really goes to show what birds can do and how quickly. Those black vultures really devour by numbers, I’ve never seen them up here before. Awesome!
 
That’s an incredible video! Thanks for sharing it! Really goes to show what birds can do and how quickly. Those black vultures really devour by numbers, I’ve never seen them up here before. Awesome!
Hope you never do see them. A huge problem for cattlemen. Peck the eyes out of newborn calves. Momma cow will step on the calf trying to fight them off. Most cattlemen here have depredation permits to shoot them.
 
I’ve yet to see any eagles around my place in w kentucky so they haven’t made a strong presence everywhere yet. Also 93 degrees on 4/21 hurts my head.
 
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