beartracker's Identifications

Young of the year: flight feathers all in roughly same stage of growth. Saw some buff-tipped body feathers as well. First two pictures of the tail feather fan, then the rest presented in order of finding.

Feathers distributed across a somewhat large area, less like a pile in one place and more like a scattered collection plucked from a point higher up (i.e. a tree).

Found on a ridge above a wetland. Fed on by a smallish carnivore given neat, cleaned remnants with no bone breakage, including through tight rib spaces. Likely weasel or mink. Killed and cached by a larger predator, likely mountain lion or bear.