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Cookie was out chasing spring birds on a recent wet snowy morning and encountered some Turkey Vultures having issues finding a thermal. Got a couple close shots with her camera. Damp vulture: ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/rwmmmfpp/Vulture2.jpg) Slightly closer portrait: ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/jdv2tpt9/Vulture1.jpg) Usually can't get very close and never realized they actually have eye lashes. Have a good one,
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Nice pictures. It's creepy when they spread their wings to dry while perched.
Wag more, bark less.
The freedoms we surrender today will be the freedoms our grandchildren will never know existed.
The men who wrote the Second Amendment didn't just finish a hunting trip, they just finished liberating a nation.
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ugly bird, but all Gods creatures are beautiful! Thanks for the photos 1M
GOA
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They are nasty, but sure can fly. We have been invaded by black buzzards in the last ten years. Climate change?? They came from Mexico like all the Meskins.
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Campfire Ranger
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Nice pictures. It's creepy when they spread their wings to dry while perched. But not when an annhinga does the same...
-OMotS
"If memory serves fails me..."
Quote: ( unnamed) "been prtty deep in the cooler todaay "
Television and radio are most effective when people question little and think even less.
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Looks a lot better than my ex gf's sister.
Better disposition too no doubt.
Reminds me of old Sanfred and Son episodes, except her name wasn't Aunt Esther.
Good photo 1 minute.
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The old buzzard... Reminds me of, me!
Coyotes shot no waiting.
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A garbage truck ain't a Corvette, but I'm glad it comes around regular.
TRUMP- GABBARD 2024
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Hit every branch of the ugly tree, on the way down !
Love Cookie's dedication !
Paul.
"Kids who grow up hunting, fishing & trapping, do not mug little old Ladies"
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Oops, I read the title and thought it was a PM intended for me. Yea, vultures are creepy. An aerodynamic masterpiece but not much in the looks department.
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The reason for that face is that a feathered face would be constantly caked with blood and gore. In other words, their distant ancestors had feathered faces (some more than others), and those with more feathers had a higher chance of acquiring a skin infection and dying. Those with slightly fewer face feathers were less prone, so more likely to pass on the genes for sparse face feathers. That preference for fewer face feathers led eventually to bare faces being the norm.
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Campfire Regular
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Still better than Piglosi face.
Due to the increased price of ammo, don't expect a warning shot...
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Slaves get what they need. Free men get what they want. Rehabilitation is way overrated. Orwell wasn't wrong. GOA member disappointed NRA member 24HCF SEARCH
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Still better than Piglosi face. Yes
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Great photos! Yes those are some ugly birds. Clint Eastwood recognized that they, too, have a place in the universe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML6oLuLecQ4
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Still better than Piglosi face. Much more useful to society too. KC
You can easily vote your way in to Socialism; but you'll have to shoot your way out.
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Highly specialized equipment on the T-V. They are usually polite around here unlike the bitch-ass Black Vultures that get after bovines during calving.
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Make Gitmo Great Again!!
Who gave the order to stop counting votes in the swing states on the night of November 3/4, 2020?
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Natures clean up crew. Within 2 days of death they come in and make a carcass disappear.
My biggest fear is when I die my wife will sell my guns for what I told her they cost.
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A garbage truck ain't a Corvette, but I'm glad it comes around regular. Good one !
The degree of my privacy is no business of yours.
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