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Originally Posted by Jolly Amaranto

I had an old possum crawl into the shrubs in the back yard and die. It was getting ripe but I put off getting the stone rake out to drag it out and dispose of it when this fellow showed up.

Yep, around here, we'd have at least a half a dozen of a mix of those and their black cousins (turkey vultures and black vultures). A while back, I threw a turkey carcase out where we put our compost. The carcase had been boiled to death to make stock. The next morning there were a bunch of vultures hanging out to pick things clean.