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Apr 27, 2019 09:21:19   #
Web_Walker
 
I was hoping and praying for herons, eagles, hawks, or egrets, and what I got was lots of turkey vultures. Can't fight that, you can only take pictures of what you see. They surely are graceful in flight, with such little apparent effort riding the thermals, and supremely needed in function. . .



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Apr 27, 2019 09:22:15   #
UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT
 
Seriously good stuff, Dave!

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Apr 27, 2019 09:43:17   #
Murex Loc: Bainbridge, Georgia
 
Nature's sanitation engineers! What they lack in beauty, they achieve in gracefulness in the air--not so much on the ground. I have never smelled anything quite like a vulture's nest we found in an abandoned cabin. Great shots!

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Apr 27, 2019 09:53:33   #
fbeaston Loc: Vermont
 
Nice shots ... & you're right ... they are really something in the air. Thanks for sharing.

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Apr 27, 2019 10:16:13   #
amfoto1 Loc: San Jose, Calif. USA
 
NEVER stand under a tree where they're roosting! (Easy to identify... it's the tree that looks like 500 gallons of whitewash were spilled below it.)

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Apr 27, 2019 10:31:43   #
Web_Walker
 
amfoto1 wrote:
NEVER stand under a tree where they're roosting! (Easy to identify... it's the tree that looks like 500 gallons of whitewash were spilled below it.)


I've never seen that before. I posted some of these on our Lake's FB group page, and a lady a few doors down from me said that she had 50 or so that roosted and nested on her back lot. He said they came back near dusk. I will be down to her house to try to get some shots. . . not this evening though. It's supposed to rain this afternoon, changing over to snow this evening. . . Winter hasn't completely departed here in Northern Indiana.

Thanks everyone for the nice comments.

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Apr 28, 2019 06:03:26   #
J-SPEIGHT Loc: Akron, Ohio
 
Web_Walker wrote:
I was hoping and praying for herons, eagles, hawks, or egrets, and what I got was lots of turkey vultures. Can't fight that, you can only take pictures of what you see. They surely are graceful in flight, with such little apparent effort riding the thermals, and supremely needed in function. . .




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Apr 28, 2019 12:49:39   #
JeffDavidson Loc: Originally Detroit Now Los Angeles
 
Well done.

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Apr 28, 2019 18:08:40   #
crafterwantabe Loc: Mn
 
Very good pictures

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