Greensboro Birds

Over at the Chinqua Penn walking trail, massive numbers of vultures are milling around with the black heifers and their calves. Typically I see maybe one black vulture for every 10 or so turkey vultures, but lately it’s more of a 50/50 split. These are black vultures in this photo.

Here’s another black vulture. There were [...]

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Tuesday afternoon brought more than a chilly breeze—it also brought a massive swarm of turkey vultures over our house. Stepping out the back door, I encountered a half dozen of them gliding low over the yard, then more came over, then more. I started counting and stopped at 200. The birds kept coming in one [...]

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