I wouldn't eat a vulture. Not after seeing what they eat. Yuck.

 

Vultures will eat any rotten dead thing....except another vulture. They're smarter than they look, I guess.

 

City slicker

 

It by no means has to be rotten - just dead.

A carnivorus bird - big deal. I eat alligator, don't you?

. . yea, I know; you don't have to pluck alligators

 

I figured out what the turkeys were doing, they were looking at their reflection in the window. I don't think they could see me very well. I still haven't found my damn camera, it's in the moving mess somewhere I'm thinking that deer had better watch out, hunting season (rifle) opens here in 2 weeks and venison is really good

 

Mike, they are probably seeking refuge from hunting season.

Open the door.

. . you may not need a gun

 

Sorry to dissapoint you ctfuzzy, but I ain't no city slicker.

 

Talk about the classic "where's your camera" scenarios, here are a couple of my all time best(worst?). My first wife and I took our honeymoon on the Harley and her boss had given us their cabin in the mountains for a couple nights. The first morning Wwe woke up to a blanket of frsh snow and a bald eagle perched on the handlebars of the old shovelhead. He flew off before I could get a camera.
The other time I wished I had it; I had been riding my snowmobile up to the treeline everyday for several weeks and most days I went alone and took my shotgun to bring home a ptarmigan or two and usually my camera too. On weekends or when someone else went I usually took only my camera. I had been seeing wolf sign for several days and one overcast day another guy and I went and It was the only time I was without my shotgun or camera. Wouldn't you know it we came across this huge black wolf with white markings. He was in the trail and just trotted along in front of us for a couple miles. I kind of zoomed up on him, within 30 feet or so and he never broke into a run. If he would go over a little hill and out of sight, he would stop and wait for use to come over the hill. He never got more that 100 feet or so ahead of us.After a couple miles the trail forked and we went the other way. !8 years in Alaska and that was my lone wolf encounter, and no camera.
I guess certain things God just intends for you to enjoy and record in your memory, besides our photographs seldom do His work justice.

 

willowbilly, just thinking of seeing a bald eagle perched on a shovelhead gives me chills. That must have been a great sight to see. Too bad you didn't get that on a good camera, think of how much that would have sold for. Priceless!

 

i think you are right willowbilly, some things are just made to be experienced, and isnt it funny how its almost always something to do with nature?

 

I forgot to mention one other time that I did have my camera. It was early winter and we had hauled our snowmobiles up the mountain for a first ride. Right by where we onloaded I got several good pictures of a martin (that is like a mink only the size of a house cat). Up the trail a ways I got more really close pictures of ptarmigan and then the camera started acting up. That was the one and only roll of Fuji film that I ever bought and the holes were misaligned and it bound up in my camera. I had to cut all the film out with a razor knife. I have no use for Fuji film to this day.