About a week ago someone banged a deer on the road that runs parallel to our place. About 200 yards from our place. Called the road commission to pick it up, left an answering machine message, as they don't work on Fridays. Today, I was hanging off the back porch taking pictures of a couple particularly nicely fall colored trees in that direction when a huge mature eagle came in and landed - started snacking on the carcass. Suprisingly only a couple cars came past while he was there for about fifteen minutes. In both cases, he took off made a big circle and came back. When he took on what I assume was a full load, he took off, landed in a tree nearby, and finally flew off... "Bout an hour later he came back - no carcass, wonder of wonders, the county had picked it up! I took pictures like mad, but unfortunately can't post pictures here