Around here the bald eagles are usually among the first to work on a dead deer, they don't care how it died, the worse it stinks a looks the better. Drove by a road kill the other weekend there were 5 eagles sitting on it, the crows were about 20 yards away but wouldn't get any closer. It was fun to watch for a few minutes. Funny that the eagles seem to love the dead dear, but won't touch a dead coon or skunk. The crows love those, the more rank the better.