I am sorry for my error. These were not all Black Vultures, most of them were immature Turkey Vultures,which have a similar dark gray head, but when perched closer you can see that the Turkey Vulture has a browner feather tinge,different head and bill shape. (And some of my close-up even had the beginning of a red tinge on the face, which I ignored) The two species are often seen together, and in this case I believe that this was a fact, but I, in my enthusiasm to get close and take good pictures, did not note that there might be two different some what similar species, and only took close ups of the immature Turkey Vultures, based on the gray face. I have several pictures of the birds on the ground at a distance, but it is hard to tell which is which, in total of eight. However, when most birds took off, I took flight pictures, and a couple birds show the white base in the outer primaries on the wings, diagnostic of Black Vultures. So, I think there were probably a couple of Black Vultures present, but most were immature Turkey Vultures, especially the close up turkey pictures taken. I do want to thank those birders who sent kind and helpful remarks which I received about my wrong identification,which became evident to those who asked me to send pictures. It seems to me there should be a standard way of us single birders being able to send pictures to verify sightings,particularly when you can not have two people ID the sighting. Andy Murphy --
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