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Birding Reports => Toronto Reports => Topic started by: Raven11:11 on May 17, 2009, 09:11:59 PM

Title: Turkey Vulture: 1st time I have EVER been afraid of a bird.
Post by: Raven11:11 on May 17, 2009, 09:11:59 PM

Getting off the bus 5pm this past Friday I immediately observed a large BLACK BIRD (**MASS!!) hovering in front of my home - a kite was tangled in the tree in front of my home ***  & immediately recognized a turkey vulture!!!  My 2nd personal up close sighting, what a !@#$%FU!@$#@! magnificent bird!!!  Enormous!!!!!!!!  I  have witnessing a bald eagle fishing some 50 feet away ..in Kapuskasing some years ago ....  this was totally different   what MAGNIFICENT SPECIMEN!!!!!!!!!     :lol: [/b]

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Post by: Mathew Rossi on May 17, 2009, 10:16:13 PM

Yeah, they're pretty cool. Up north one day I was hiking and stepped out into this farm field. There were about 20+ Turkey Vultures, some juvenile, some adults, and they got very curious when I appeared. I snapped while standing on the edge under tree cover. Here's one:
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=7892995 (http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=7892995)

Title: Andean condor?
Post by: Raven11:11 on May 17, 2009, 11:02:22 PM

Thanks big guy,  I was 25 feet below this bird & it //./  perhaps 1 day   I   will experiecne a condor.    Su-reel. sirealsireal.. :P

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Post by: mr.sharp-photo on May 18, 2009, 09:47:56 AM

just saw the griffin vulture in northern israel. now THAT is a large bird of prey!


what part of toronto did you see it in?

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Post by: Raven11:11 on May 18, 2009, 03:16:29 PM

5 minutes north of the Humber College Arboretum.   The griffin vulture sure looks interesting.  Must have been a sight.   I still think back & just shake me head when I remember this Vulture circling the tree and checking out a kite that was tangled in the branches.  It probably thought that the kite was an injured bird.  8)