So, this morning a vulture landed in the neighbor's back yard gliding in on its four/four-and-a-half foot wingspan exactly as if it was still a thousand feet up right until it was its own height above the ground and then dropping as gentle as could be and walking over behind some bushes so I couldn't see what had attracted it in the first place. It immediately took off again, from a standing start, which is impressive for a creature that large, circled, came in again, disappeared behind the bush and took off a second time. It's shadow as passing over the yard was worthy of a Nazgul.
The vultures are back in force all around the neighborhood and are flying quite low as a rule. I can't imagine there are that many dead things just lying around (opossum and cat were the last two I saw and that was weeks ago) but they sure seem attracted to a number of sites.
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