This beautiful sunny afternoon at around 3:45pm Gin and I stopped at the Stevenson/Dodge Rd. junction to see if any Black Vultures would show up. Within a few minutes in the distance we saw four vulture types in close formation flying north towards us over Snyder Hill, flying straight and flapping continuously. They passed right over us and we could clearly see they were black vultures. They continued north towards Fall Creek and disappeared over the horizon. They were flapping non-stop in a steady rhythm from horizon to horizon. There were several TVs lazily soaring around too. The appearance of Black Vultures here in winter seems to be clear evidence of the climate changing. Can't attribute it to new highways and prevalence of roadkill which was given as the reason when TVs first started appearing here years ago.
Nari & Gin Mistry, Ellis Hollow Rd. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: Black vultures > From: Brad Walker <edgarallenhoo...@gmail.com> > Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2018 13:29:57 +0000 > X-Message-Number: 1 > > The four black vultures are currently perched in a dead tree next to the > small bridge between Dodge Road and the game farm. > > -- _______________________ *Nari B. Mistry*, Ithaca, NY To see my paintings, visit http://www.ArtbyNari.com -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
