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Pictures Black Vultures feasting...Graphic pics warning!

April

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I went out pic hunting yesterday and had some of my best luck ever! I came across a pair of Black Vultures feasting on a poor unfortune squirrel who got too close to the road. I was able to get within about 10 feet of them and they kept eating without seeming to be bothered by me. I took over 400 pics of them which let me tell ya it didn't seem like that lol but its true. Here's just a few of my favorites. I just love Black and Turkey Vutures so much. They are so underappreciated and often villainized but they are such a magnificent and special species and Im always so thankful when I come across some. They just look so huggable to me.

First I saw one of them perched on the light posts and got a few shots and left for a little bit to try to find the local Red Shouldered Hawk pair and when I came back he and his mate were on the kill.
Black vulture in the sun edited.jpg
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Black vultures on kill pulling squrriel edited.jpg
Black vulture organs pulling edited.jpg

One of my best pics if I may say.
Black vulture lifting kill best pic edited.jpg
Black vulture rubbing lamp with foot up edited.jpg

black vultures on road best edited.jpg
 

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Beautiful pics :)
 

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Fantastic photos!
 

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Wow they are beautiful! I love birds of prey they are very fascinating! Thanks for sharing!! :xflove: :heart:
 

April

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Wow they are beautiful! I love birds of prey they are very fascinating! Thanks for sharing!! :xflove: :heart:
Thanks for appreciating them! It makes me so happy when other folks love Vultures as well :)
 

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That's awesome.

I used to work on the top floor of a 19-story business tower which had sliding glass doors to external patios and we could clearly watch the vultures do their thing.

... until the peregrine falcons decided they wanted to nest on the top of the building and the vultures were driven off.
 

April

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That's awesome.

I used to work on the top floor of a 19-story business tower which had sliding glass doors to external patios and we could clearly watch the vultures do their thing.

... until the peregrine falcons decided they wanted to nest on the top of the building and the vultures were driven off.
Thank you so much! Oh woah that must have been so amazing to witness that all the time. What a shame the Peregines drove them away though. Pity they couldn't share the space so you could have had the best of both worlds.
 
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