{"id":75580,"date":"2019-09-08T05:32:15","date_gmt":"2019-09-08T11:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=75580"},"modified":"2019-09-08T07:20:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-08T13:20:54","slug":"yesterdays-turkey-vultures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/08\/yesterdays-turkey-vultures\/","title":{"rendered":"Yesterday’s Turkey Vultures"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t post photos of Turkey Vultures often but yesterday, International Vulture Awareness Day, was perfect timing to have an encounter with them.<\/p>\n

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1\/1600, f\/6.3, ISO 800, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + EF 1.4 III Extender, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

For most of my time with them I didn’t have very good light but it improved slightly when this adult stretched its wings while perched on a lichen-covered rock. As they so often do I thought the bird might take off immediately after the stretch so I was primed for flight shots but this time it didn’t happen.<\/p>\n

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1\/1000, f\/7.1\/ ISO 500, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L IS II USM @ 158mm, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

I grabbed my other 7D Mark II and smaller lens to document the scene in front of me. At first I believe there were seven vultures on the rocks but by this time one of them had flown the coop. Only one bird was an adult, the one at middle top with a red head (the bird in the first photo). All the rest were juveniles with gray heads.<\/p>\n

At one point the two youngsters on the right…<\/p>\n

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1\/640, f\/6.3, ISO 800, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + EF 1.4 III Extender, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

had a fairly serious squabble. Because of a mysterious increase in exposure that dramatically dropped my shutter speed this photo isn’t particularly sharp but it’s sharp enough to document the fighting behavior. This was one of the very few times I’ve ever witnessed a vulture fight.<\/p>\n

Western populations of Turkey Vultures are more migratory than their counterparts in the east and some of our vultures have likely already headed south.<\/p>\n

I’m definitely going to miss them during the long winter.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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I don’t post photos of Turkey Vultures often but yesterday, International Vulture Awareness Day, was perfect timing to have an encounter with them.<\/p>\n

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