When I was in the Everglades in 2020, in one of the main parking areas (Anhinga?) off the main road to Flamingo, I witnessed several black vultures ripping black rubber parts off parked cars!
One had to get there early to get one of about 20 tarps the Nat’l. Park Service provided to cover ones car. On another trip in northeastern Florida, I was at one of the state springs parks & watched a lone black vulture decimating the picnic food of people who had left packages of hot dog buns & a big , cut-in-half watermelon with no covering on a picnic table. They were in for a surprise when they returned! I thought, “ BV is getting even with humans for all their various transgressions against the bird world!” (BTW, I was thrilled to encounter 11 Florida Scrub Jays in the thickets along US Hwy. 19 just outside the park when I left later in the day). Donna Scott Kendal at Ithaca-377 Sent from my iPhone On Apr 22, 2023, at 10:28 AM, Andrew David Miller <andrew.mil...@cornell.edu> wrote: This morning at around 8:30 there was a single Black Vulture at the Tompkins County recycling center (there may have been others as there was a tree of vultures out behind the center). What I found interesting is where the black vulture was. It was sitting on top of the Fork Over Tompkins trailer doing its best to tear out the top vent. I don’t know if there were any food scarps left in the trailer, but I am sure it was emanating an wonderful odor. The vulture was using its beak to try to pry through the slats of the vent as well as hooking its bill under them and trying to rip it up. In the few minutes I watched, it was not been successful in the least. Closer to home in Freeville, Chipping Sparrows, Eastern Towhee, and House Wren are all back on territory. Ruby-crowned Kinglets have been around for a few days as well. A pair of Juncos has been busy rejuvenating a previous years nest. -Andrew Miller -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME> Rules and Information<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> Archives: The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> Surfbirds<http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> BirdingOnThe.Net<http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html> Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>! -- -- 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/ --
