Ol’ turkey buzzard
June 10th, 2008
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As we got out of the house this morning, we spotted this huge turkey vulture sitting on our neighbor’s roof. Its wingspan must have been about 5 to 6 feet. Adit and Ashwini were thrilled to see it at such a close distance. It wasn’t phased by all the noise we were making and just sat there warming its back and wings. It flew away after I brought my camera from inside and took a few photos.
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Coool…I saw one when in Austin, see my blog! It was right in the middle of the road and I saw it swoop down for dinner. Amazing sight!! Ashwini must have remembered ‘Old Turkey Buzzard’
Awesome!
Hope you can capture some closer shots.
BTW, what happened to the Paraphotoblog?
I remember some nice pictures on it way back… 2004/05 maybe?
Prashant: I didn’t see that bird again in our neighbourhood.
My ‘phlog’ died when I switched from Movable Type to WP for content management. It is annoying that you have to have separate installations for each blog with WP. I’ll revive it when there is a simpler option and some time available. All those photos are in my Flickr album that you already have seen.
A turkey bezzard came to visit us a few days ago. I got some good photos and am wondering how it got to our area of Colorado. I do remember as a child seeing chicken hawks. Iis it possible turkey buzzards are the same thing?