The moose I came upon shortly afterward - something no good happened here
Thursday, October 10, 2013 at 6:35PM 
Right after I took the previous picture of the moose who posed for me at the side of the road, I pulled off into the tiny parking lot at the bridge over the Little Su and made the previous post. I was just about to leave when this sight caught my eye, a short distance from the parking lot. I don't know what the story is here, but given that the rib cage is fully intact, which would not be the case if someone had properly butchered a moose, taken legally or poached, and that whoever left this here as litter alongside a public parking lot has such little consideration for not only his or her fellow citizens but the animal itself, it certainly doesn't look good. I am still in the parking lot looking out over the Little Su River. A bald eagle sits on a cottonwood branch on the other side, maybe 150 yards away from me. I would photograph the eagle, but with the iPhone at this distance there is really no point. A magpie has landed on the moose rib cage and is picking at it. I would get back out and try to go photograph the magpie but it would fly away before I could get close enough. I might as well let it eat in peace.
Reader Comments (2)
gosh, bill, this is really sad.... yuck, that walmart bag.... but the magpie is doing his job, as are you with your iPhone.
Hmmmmmm.