Friday, October 18, 2019

Seen Around Town

As Halloween approaches, this sinister crew showed up in the cemetery this morning.

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  1. Is that not appropriately called a murder?

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    1. It's a murder of crows, yes, but these aren't crows. They're much bigger than crows and bigger than ravens. I thought they might be black vultures, but the head isn't right.

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  2. Black vultures indeed. I saw them on my way into town. In the spirit of the season

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  3. Carole those are most certainly Black Vultures ... Not Turkey Vultures if that is what you mean by 'head'

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    1. The photos of black vultures I found online gave the impression that a black vulture's entire head is gray. These guys only had gray beaks and some gray that extended up toward the top of their head. I didn't mean the shape of their heads.

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  4. Having to look up the venery, I've just learned that this is "a wake of [black] vultures." How perfect.

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