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Originally Posted by Jolly Amaranto

Turkey vultures have a keen sense of smell. This one detected a dead critter, a squirrel or a bunny, in the neighbors back yard and landed outside my window to zero in on it. It eventually found it and settled down for a meal.


Then I see another big bird swoop down over the fence. This time a black vulture. They can't smell too well but have very keen eye sight. Plus they tend to be bullies. It was probably circling around way overhead and saw the other bird chowing down so came in to investigate. It pushed the turkey vulture aside and took over. I peeked over the fence to get this shot.

Most of the time when I see vultures around here, they are black vultures and probably eating deer or other roadkill. What you've posted above helps me understand why the other day, I saw 10-20 turkey vultures and no black vultures. The small critters in/under the hay weren't that visible, but were probably easy for the turkey vultures to smell.

The other day they were using the tedder that looked similar to this.



Today they are back with the rake.


which is leading the JD 535 baler


This country livin' stuff is educational!