Okay, you've got me hooked. Special interest in large birds is a thing. (rabbit holes for a little while, then remembers that I have things to do)
Near my parents' house, about three years ago, there was a group of at least a hundred vultures. We ended up watching a couple of them fight on the roof of an ex-one-room-schoolhouse a street over from us while another forty or so looked on. We've got hawks and possibly a couple nests of golden eagles around because we're pretty rural, but the vultures were a bit crazy at that point. They've died down in the years since, though.
>> Okay, you've got me hooked. Special interest in large birds is a thing. <<
I love them too. We have a walnut tree that's been hit by lightning so the uppermost branches are dead, and they love to perch there. They also like several other walnut trees for the open branches.
>> Near my parents' house, about three years ago, there was a group of at least a hundred vultures. <<
Wow! I think the most I've seen was between one and two dozen.
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Date: 2018-01-07 10:07 pm (UTC)Ooh!
Date: 2018-01-07 10:14 pm (UTC)Probably changed trees from a change in the wind.
Re: Ooh!
Date: 2018-01-07 11:14 pm (UTC)We also have vultures, kestrels, and great-horned owls. There are fewer barn owls than there used to be.
Re: Ooh!
Date: 2018-01-08 12:07 am (UTC)Near my parents' house, about three years ago, there was a group of at least a hundred vultures. We ended up watching a couple of them fight on the roof of an ex-one-room-schoolhouse a street over from us while another forty or so looked on. We've got hawks and possibly a couple nests of golden eagles around because we're pretty rural, but the vultures were a bit crazy at that point. They've died down in the years since, though.
Re: Ooh!
Date: 2018-01-08 02:00 am (UTC)I love them too. We have a walnut tree that's been hit by lightning so the uppermost branches are dead, and they love to perch there. They also like several other walnut trees for the open branches.
>> Near my parents' house, about three years ago, there was a group of at least a hundred vultures. <<
Wow! I think the most I've seen was between one and two dozen.
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Date: 2018-01-08 12:28 am (UTC)Very Pretty
Date: 2018-01-08 01:15 am (UTC)Re: Very Pretty
Date: 2018-01-08 01:52 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2018-01-08 01:07 pm (UTC)We get red kites circling above the woodland here.