We discovered this large bird carcass hanging from a tree in the far bog last week. I am guessing it is a heron.

It has been dead for a while and how it got in this position is a mystery. The tree is ten to twenty feet from the old rail/snow machine trail into the bog. A human would have had to wade into some serious swampy morass to place a bird onto the tree. How a normal large heron would have gotten itself into this position is unknown to me. Would a large predatory animal, bear-coyote-fisher-?, managed to do this?

The bird’s neck is the approximate point where it appears to be hanging but it is not clear that the neck is hooked onto anything, such as the crook of branch limb.