A couple juvenile turkey vultures (note: the lack of color on their heads) trying to eat the dogs toy a stuffed bear(LOL) one of the vultures was gurarding his "kill" from the other ones. I WISH I would have video taped it. It was hysterical. Even without a cup of coffee.
Kristi
***note the little stuffed bear on the sidewalk***
The view from my kitchen this a.m. *to funny*
Kristi, that IS funny..LOL!
What a hoot - silly things! Practice, I guess!
Ha!! I'll have to mantion this to my girl freind. She's had some vultures around here place. Maybe they can throw out an old teddy to lure them - lol!
LOL so funny! Yes video would be better!
Wish I cudda seen that! Serves the ugly things right!
Ever seen fight over road kill? Chilling.
Love to start the day with a good laff :)
Poppysue, am I so behind the times, or are vultures recent to Maine? I think I've seen them here and in Prospect. In the 70's I went south and first saw them in N.Carolina. Global warming? Not last winter. Frank
That's just sooo funny - thanks for posting :)
Ooooooh spooky, hope they haven't got designs on the occupants of the house LOL
Perhaps they lost their mummy and daddy and never learnt what kind of food they're sposed to eat ;)
Me to philomel! LOL..... I'm wondering if I should go get a check up from the doctor! My husband has been kidding me about this all morning.
Boy, wish our office had big windows like that! What a view (vultures aside).
This is such a wonderful thread. I loved the photos and I loved the story of the teddy bear. Too funny!
That's funny! They'rrrrrrre baaaack. LOL
Looks like good pickings at your house!! LOL Teddys and Duckies...what more could they want?
Hey! Thats so cool! You have your very own back yard clean up commity, good for you! I think they are awsome, and inspiring, mother nature was on the ball when she created these guys.
: )
Dena
Rubber Duckie you're the one... you make yardtime so much fun!
Remember that song? datdog, your guests lend new meaning to the rubber duckie song! I love them!
Datdog, you have such a beautiful back yard...but what the heck are you putting in your bird feeders, girl?
I remember the vulture pics with the plant. Too funny. Your vultures are something. Not something I get in this neck of the woods.
I don't mess with the bird feeder. I go for the big guns. My vulture attracting plant- don't ya know
LOL! Yep, one of those would do the trick...if they would actually grow in Jersey, that is. ;)
.. 'howdy' datdog/Kristi ..
Ahh, tis one of the tales which deem worthy of a royal bumperooner ..
Not sure which would be worse: these big skinheaded feathered critters or a family of skunks on my porch. (lol)
- Magpye
Ahhh! A stinking alum! No wonder those poor vultures are confused. They can smell a corpse, they just can't find it! Guess mom & dad forgot to warn them about the plants. :)
Magpye- thanks for bumping this up! I must say that I really do look forward to the fall when the big guys return. Sadly, only about 1/4 of the vultures showed up this fall and I often wonder what happened to them? I do have one that still pecks away at my door every a.m. and hops about after me when I'm in the yard. I can't prove it but I do think he's the same one that shows up every year. I've grown attached to the ugly bugger. :) He/she will be leaving soon and I'll wait again next fall to see if he comes back.
Yes, I'll keep my vultures and pass on the skunks. LOL Had them once and they were not good neighbors. :)
Garden Mermaid that is SO true- those suckers stink.
Do you think they were Black Vultures, not Turkey Vultures?
We have both types, the ones with the red face, and the ones with the grey face, and they hang out in the same flock. We put a turkey carcass out one day for the small birds to pick apart, and before you knew it, we had a flock of about 20 vultures just hanging around in the backyard. It was sort of comical, the way they just lurk around, and they are very curious, looking into the windows and all, and one small group spent a good amount of time investigating and pushing a soccer ball around the yard.
Unfortunately, I had no batteries in the camera that morning.
Hadn't seen this old thread before . . .
Do you think they were Black Vultures, not Turkey Vultures?
. . . all the pics show Black Vultures
Resin
Kristi,
All your pics and comments with each posting, are too funny! LOL
Thanks for sharing!
Marilyn
What a timely post, I just had my morning visit from our local vulture. Not sure why this one hasn't left but he/she seems to be hanging around pretty late. I snapped a picture the other day of my DOG and the vulutre both sitting on the back porch. Thankfully I have a very kind dog that wouldn't hurt him or go after him. I'm on a new computer so I'll try to figure out how to download it later.
I'm so glad this got bumped. It sure is a fun read! Poor, poor teddy bear! lol
We have Turkey Vultures here and I am glad for the 'service' they provide!
What a great thread! Glad it got bumped too! I love Vultures!
Loved this thread. Vultures are under-appreciated, both for the janitorial services they provide and their fascinating, inquisitive nature. They have a flock hierarchy, just like a pack of wolves, and vulture children have to be formally "introduced" by their parents in order to gain acceptance. Personally, my favorite raptor.
I didn't know about their social lives, thanks for the intro clueless - must look them up. They don't live immediately where I am, but there are three or four species in the Pyrenees, not far away.
Thanks again for the thread datdog :)
Hey Ya'll! Hope you don't mind my droppin' in! My best friend lives in Ala. Before she moved to the house where she lives now, she lived in the edge of the woods. She fed the crows and vultures. She would call the crows, and the vultures would come! They learned about what time she put her scraps out and they would roost in her tree till she put them out for them! Those vultures were beautiful. So black they looked blue, and had a wing span on about 4 or 5 ft. Bigger than your friends, I think! I never heard of anyone who could call crows before!
Audrey
PS: I just reread this, Sounds like she didn't live in a house in the edge of the woods! She did! She just moved to another house!
"bumping up" a funny thread.
I'm glad I've dug deep back into the wildlife forum so as not to have missed anything!
It's very educational - and even more entertaining!