Black Vulture south of Picton

[Tyler]

While walking the beach along Soup Harbour ( bay just north of the point)
just after 2pm today I had a Black Vulture pass overhead with 3 Turkey
Vultures heading toward Point Petre military radio facility. When I left the
Point Petre area at 3pm the bird was in a kettle of 12 Turkey Vultures
circling over Army Reserve Road and Point Petre road (county rd 24) area.
With the north wind these TVs may have been migrants, however there are
resident Turkey Vultures here from mid April to mid November.

Directions
 From Picton
 From the LCBO (hwy 33 and county road 10, west end of Picton)Take county
road 10 south through Cherry Valley. Just after leaving Cherry Valley take
county road 24 right/south to where it dead ends at Point Petre. The
military antenna arrays area is  on the east side of the road and the
lighthouse on the west side. Army Reserve Road runs east-west  just north of
the arrays.

Tyler Hoar
Oshawa

[Misty01]

very cool report Tyler  My husband and I fish in the Niagra River near the queenston bridge and this past week we saw over 30 TV's. He noticed a couple didn't have the red head. After reading your report and checking out the google images of the black vulture I am pretty certain that 3-5 of them were actually black vultures mixed in with the turkey vultures.

[Tyler]

Hello Misty

Just a heads up
Immature Turkey Vultures have black heads as well.  And have lead to misidentified Black Vultures in the past.

Black Vultures in Ontario are quite rare usually less than 5 sightings of Individual birds in a year. The point petre bird I do believe is number 3 or 4 for this year I knew of.

Black Vultures are on the Southern Ontario review list
http://www.ofo.ca/checklist/south.php
" Ontario is divided into north and south regions at latitude 47 degrees North; thus, the cities of Sault Ste. Marie, Sudbury and North Bay are in the southern region of the province. OBRC requests documentation when the species on the list below is recorded in the South. To submit a report"

If you are confident on your sighting I recommend submit a report, for 3-5 Black vultures in Ontario is extremely rare sighting.

ps Brandon Holden just found a Dickcissel this morning at Point Petre

[Misty01]

hmmm ... well if as you say the juv. have no red on their heads/faces then it was probably just juv. tv's. I didn't get a photo or else I would report it. Thanks for the clarification  
~ Crystal ~

[Lloyd]

I had the opportunity to see many Turkey Vultures and Black Vultures flying together while vacationing in south Florida recently. With their shorter tail, the BV's bear a vague resemblance to large bats.