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POM Judge & Official Non Gardener
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Buffalo, NY, USA
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Yes, that's a turkey vulture!
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WG Hospitality & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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How cool! I'm glad I got to see one up close. Big bird!
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Lungwort
Join Date: May 2009
Location: South Carolina, in the Midlands
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Between the highways and the hunters we manage to support an active community of buzzards, to give them the local common name. The power-line that runs a quarter mile or so from my place is a favorite resting place for them. They will line up wingtip to wingtip on the crossbars of the double poles.
Usually they fly solo, in pairs, or a few together but sometimes they congregate in a flock of dozens. None of that fancy synchronized flying like pigeons or blackbirds, though; it's every bird for himself. A couple of weeks ago I was helping a neighbor with some mowing when this lot showed up on the horizon; even in the rather poor cell phone photo I count more than thirty. Wm |
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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WG Prize & Gift Coordinator
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Michigan
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Looks like you'll be needing a pair of new goggles...I see them. All kinds of em.
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WG Hospitality & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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Well... I went back and enlarged the picture, then spotted them (I think). They are in the *sky*, right? I was scanning the ground and the trees, but not the sky the first time. Maybe I can keep my glasses' prescription after all.
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POM Judge & Official Non Gardener
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Buffalo, NY, USA
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Lungwort
Join Date: May 2009
Location: South Carolina, in the Midlands
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There you go. I'm afraid the cell phone doesn't do panoramic very well. Wm |
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WG Prize & Gift Coordinator
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Michigan
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She SURE IS! Sage
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WG Hospitality & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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I'd never have done anything like this before reading about it here on WG...I took a shovel to bring roadkill into my yard to attract turkey vultures! There was a racoon that was hit on the road close to our driveway in our front yard.
Having read about vulture feeding platforms and such here, I decided to bring it into the yard, so that I could get so pictures. No more than a couple hours after moving it, I spotted a turkey vulture perched in our yard. I went in through the front door hoping not to scare it off...and grabbed the camera. By the time I got to the back yard, it was gone. ![]() I didn't take any pictures of the roadkill itself, so the squeamish can continue to read this. ![]() Today, I got a video of two vultures circling near our yard, but that is all...no close ups or anything. I'm not hoping for more roadkill, but I bet I'd do it again...hopefully getting some good photos and keeping those attacted to if off the road. YouTube - 176.MTS
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"If suburbia were landscaped with meadows, prairies, thickets or forests, or combinations of these, then the water would sparkle, fish would be good to eat again, birds would sing and human spirits would soar." ~ Lorrie Otto ~ A Native Backyard Blog ~ Last edited by dapjwy; 04-21-2011 at 08:21 PM. Reason: trouble with embedding video |
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