This past week I came across a couple of large birds in the wild; both scavengers. The first is no stranger to anyone. A seagull. During an excursion to the coast with my father and Janna, I decided to take pity on the seagulls at North Hampton Beach and feed them copious amounts of nutrigrain bar bits. This one seagull was by far the most feisty of his peers, thus warranting a photo.
Next up! A few days later and much farther inland I came across this very tolerant Turkey Vulture. Typically, turkey vultures travel in pairs or families around here, but this one stood alone. And more importantly, they certainly take to flight well before you come this close to them! I was within 5-10 feet of this one before it cough/scrawked and nonchallantly went on its vulture way. :)
6 comments:
Great! now my blog on the seagulls is gonna seem so unoriginal!!! i guess u beat me to it fair and square =P
Mine included only 1 gull. Not a whole rookery! And that's an adult. Don't you have tales of little gulls? :D
ooooooooooooooo good point!!!
I am sure that is the blood of an innocent nutrigrain bar on his beak. Or that of a child. Seagulls, especially those big ones that look like demonic Albatross's, are not my favourite bird. Could you tell?
That's not blood actually. That's the natural coloring of that particular seagull's beak. :)
Could have fooled me! Unless you took a swab - I shant believe you!
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