There is a scene in the movie City of Angels where you see all the angels in long black trench coats gazing off into the sunrise. It's really quite a beautiful and haunting scene and one which immediately came to mind this morning as I drove to work and saw this:
Every day I drive by a farm where turkey vultures roost in the surrounding woods. I have seen these turkey vultures roosting in the trees before but this morning they were all sitting in the treetops with their wings extended.
I've never seen this before and I wondered if they were not drying their wings out from the thunderstorms we had last night. That seems the most practical answer but the sight of it was striking enough to make me double back and stop to take these pics.
Every day I drive by a farm where turkey vultures roost in the surrounding woods. I have seen these turkey vultures roosting in the trees before but this morning they were all sitting in the treetops with their wings extended.
I've never seen this before and I wondered if they were not drying their wings out from the thunderstorms we had last night. That seems the most practical answer but the sight of it was striking enough to make me double back and stop to take these pics.
Labels: life, Photographs
3 Comments:
Interesting indeed , now I will have to do some research and see if I can't find out why they do that. Even more interesting you got shots of turkey vultures today and I got shots of Red Tailed Hawks that were hanging out by the old court house downtown
those are some great shots! Very interesting....
If they migrate that might explain the gathering...I don't ever recall seeing them in winter; lots of hawks, but not buzzards.
Hmmmmm...
alan
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