Turkey Vulture for Lynne

This Turkey Vulture is for Lynne at Hasty Brook who loves these birds as much as I love my Loons! (P.S. Lynne - I was driving down the road when I saw a group of about 20 of them. I pulled over and rolled down my window to take a shot, and they all flew away but this one!) I better perfect my birding stalking skills!

A contrast in beauty - Swan and the Turkey Vulture

"It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. "
Aesop, The Jay and the PeacockGreek slave & fable author (620 BC - 560 BC)

The beauty of a Turkey Vulture

As my husband and I were driving back downstate from Northern Michigan, I thought I had spotted a juvenile Bald Eagle. My husband turned the car around and we did a second pass and found it to be a Turkey Vulture. He was disappointed but I was actually thrilled. He was quite interesting to watch. He kept spreading his wings out like a peacock. As I contemplated his face - bare and not very attractive, he took off into the sky. And then I thought - look how beautiful the Turkey Vulture is in flight.