Lou FCD
Posts: 5455 Joined: Jan. 2006
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Quote (dhogaza @ Mar. 29 2013,23:48) | Join the club, dude, though in my case it was 30+ years ago :)
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Yeah, It's a rough life. :)
So yesterday was another pretty day for birding. I spent some time in the morning down at Federal Point at Fort Fisher.
Royal Terns by Lou FCD, on Flickr
Look at this cutie pie!
Forster's Tern by Lou FCD, on Flickr
Bonaparte's Gull (juvenile) by Lou FCD, on Flickr, new for the life-lists.
Later in the day, I was driving past the local Moose Lodge and saw a pair of Black Vultures circling. I pulled in, left the door and the trunk open, and raced around the lot on foot trying desperately to get a few good shots. I'd had one fuzzy, crappy shot of a BV from a rainy day last fall when our Ornithology class went up to Kiptopeke State Park in Virginia, but nothing at all since.
Eventually, they settled into some trees at the edge of the lot. After securing the car, I mosied over to see if I could get a few more shots in. There were half a dozen Turkey Vultures and four Black Vultures all roosting in the trees there.
Black Vulture by Lou FCD, on Flickr
Black Vulture by Lou FCD, on Flickr
Turkey Vulture by Lou FCD, on Flickr
I found it kind of humorous that a bunch of vultures were just hanging outside the Moose Lodge, as if they were waiting for one of the old farts to kick it in the parking lot on the way to the car.
Edited by Lou FCD on Mar. 30 2013,12:29
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