Photo of the Day #657: A Fish in a Tree

Gulls, maybe. I was at Lake Erie, PA last weekend and found loads of fish head bones that the gulls had picked clean. I also interrupted their meals numerous times walking up and down the beach.

Just for reference, even if one likes the smell of stinky fish remains, it is probably a good idea to get fish bones out of a suitcase as rapidly as possible once one is home, less one renders the baggage useless (or unpleasantly, aromatically, useful).

It's a perch.

Racoons most likely. I found lots of crab shells in trees like this on the Washington coast and we saw the racoons at night trying to steal our food (hung on lines setup for protection - park rangers warned us about them).

It doesn't appear to be a Borneo tree-climbing catfish.

Do feral house cats sometimes drag carcasses up to tree forks to keep, like leopards do?