Turkey Vulture

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beerthief said:
They form a circle around road kill and take turns eating , interesting to watch the pecking order .
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Hello @beerthief

Yeah there seemed to be a misunderstanding this morning with that first squirrel with the pecking order. All three Vultures were fighting over that critter and had it stretched out to be about 2-feet long. They look so awkward with their wings stretched out and holding on to the squirrel with one foot, it was funny to watch.

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They are not clean birds. Their poop covers everything. I used to climb towers in the midwest and everything towards the top of the towers were covered with what looks like spilled dirty white paint. Some cities applied for fed permission to chase away these protected birds from city communication towers because of maintenance issues. The feds always said no.
 
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PaulYosh said:
They are not clean birds. Their poop covers everything. I used to climb towers in the midwest and everything towards the top of the towers were covered with what looks like spilled dirty white paint. Some cities applied for fed permission to chase away these protected birds from city communication towers because of maintenance issues. The feds always said no.
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The feds don't always say no. Nearly 3 decades ago, they gave permission to kill a red tail hawk to a nuclear power station I worked at. During a refueling outage, the equipment hatch on the exterior of containment was open to move in/out stuff that was too large to get in otherwise, and that hawk flew into the containment building. They tried everything from lures, capturing, annoying, you name it for a couple weeks during the outage to get that bird out with no luck. There was always eyes on the hatch 24/7 waiting for it to fly out to hunt or whatever and had a net all set up to block re-entry. One of securities snipers got a low powered springer, practiced for a week while waiting for permission, and took it out cleanly. That bird cost a few million dollars in delayed closing of equipment hatch and thus an increase in refueling time.
 
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karl_h said:
The feds don't always say no. Nearly 3 decades ago, they gave permission to kill a red tail hawk to a nuclear power station I worked at. During a refueling outage, the equipment hatch on the exterior of containment was open to move in/out stuff that was too large to get in otherwise, and that hawk flew into the containment building. They tried everything from lures, capturing, annoying, you name it for a couple weeks during the outage to get that bird out with no luck. There was always eyes on the hatch 24/7 waiting for it to fly out to hunt or whatever and had a net all set up to block re-entry. One of securities snipers got a low powered springer, practiced for a week while waiting for permission, and took it out cleanly. That bird cost a few million dollars in delayed closing of equipment hatch and thus an increase in refueling time.
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SEE ! money talks . yeah i know just sayin'
 
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Hello everyone,

I have shot six Tree Rats in the last two days and my good friend Bud ( Turkey Vulture ) along with 16 of his closest friends had a big party today. They spent most of the time going back and forth from my front yard to the side yard enjoying some Tree Rat Candy. Boy it doesn't take them long to clean up all six.

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