Shutterbugsailer Loc: Staten Island NY (AKA Cincinnati by the Sea)

On Easter Sunday, while visiting my mother in law at the Rehab center where she was recovering from major surgery, I happened to get some shots of Turkey Vultures from the residents' patio. There is, indeed some interesting wildlife to be found within the NYC limits

you can barely see them near the middle of the frame

kubota king Loc: NW , Pa.

I had to laugh when I started to read your heading . When I was in my teens and walked around pissed a lot of the time , my mother saw a T-shirt that had two buzzards sitting on a dead branch of a tree that had the same words you wrote wrote on the T-shirt . I would say often to me , I'm going to buy you that T-shirt to wear , but she never did . Thanks for the laugh . And I too have many photos of buzzards I took with my camera . The one day just up the road from my place buzzards were circling in the sky and there must of been 10 buzzards in the large tree near by . Glad I had my camera a 400mm lens on . Got some great shots . I'm sure you felt the same way when you took these photos . Tommy

sailorsmom Loc: Souderton, PA

Nice shots, Shutterbugsailer!

Shutterbugsailer Loc: Staten Island NY (AKA Cincinnati by the Sea)

Thanks for replying, Kubotaking and Sailorsmom. In reality they werent great shots. They were shot a distance with a slowish 18-300 all in one lens attached to a Pentax K-50. Focusing was hard due to numerous branches coming between me and the subjects, and at full zoom with the lens stopped wide open, the depth of field was quite narrow. I ended up focusing manually. Had I known earlier that they would be there, I would have brought a more powerful zoom.