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IrishRaine — A Vulture's Playground
Published: 2008-01-17 23:00:22 +0000 UTC; Views: 1046; Favourites: 25; Downloads: 0
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A vulture visiting my neighbor's yard today.
I was ill today, but getting this shot sure cheered me up. 
I love vultures.
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This is a gorgeous shot of a beautiful bird! I love vultures and buzzards as well, not enough people appreciate them.
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Thank you! It is great to know others appreciate these majestic birds. I love watching them play in the sky.
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Good pic, I love it. I also love vultures they r very fascinating birds.
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Cool! Nice to know I'm not the only one
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This one is really interesting, especially considering that vultures were considered to be maternal creatures by ancient cultures. Don't laugh...they're very dedicated parents who don't venture far from their young until the chicks are strong enough to leave the nest.
So, in a way, this swingset was sort of blessed by the vulture's presence.
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I appreciate your comment! Thank you so much! I love your point!
They are one of my favorite birds!
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Wow! Look at that wing span! Talk about being int he right place at the right time to capture the photo.
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Thanks so much! It was really great! I even wrote a short story sci-fi about it.
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You're welcome! How wonderful!
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Yay another vulture lover! I know it is rare in my state for people to like the scavengers, but they are an important part of the ecosystem and they are needed to be able to keep things stable in any given place. Wonderful shot btw I have to say it is nice to see you have healthy looking vultures.
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I love vultures, too! They are very necessary and I think they are beautiful. Yes, they are very healthy here because we have a lot of road kill, unfortunately. Sad for the wild animals. Anyhow, I was so happy to have the opportunity for this picture!
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you are sooo lucky to be able to take a pic like that. the population of vultures here in my state is so bad it's so low. people don't watch what they are doing and hit these wonderful birds and it just makes me want to cry.
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We are extremely lucky! Where do you live?
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Virginia, unfortunately there are many backwards things in this state.
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That sucks. Surprising for Virginia.
I'm in Georgia.
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ah, well I rant and rave about Virginia too much at times. it has gotten a lot better now then it was in the past. They have such organizations like wildlife rehabilitation which I think are great. Southern Virginia is a completely different story all together.
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I think you guys are ahead of us. I have not heard of a wildlife rehab out here, and there was an inured vulture I wanted to help once last year. But it is illegal to help them here.
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what!? that's just stupid. Virginia has gotten a lot better over the past 25 years from what I understand, we have some of the strictest laws aginst animal cruelty in the nation but our wildlife regulations are a bit more lax. We try our best to work and help injured animals no matter what they are but some animals just get sub standard treatment because they are not companion animals. But I try to volunteer as much as possible. one of these days I would love to be able to become a wildlife rehabilitator and help all of these animals be introduced back into the wild.
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It is stupid, I agree.
You would make a great rehabilitator! I bet you do it!
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Yes well I need to get money for that first. it costs much more then I am making at this moment in time unfortunately. There is quite the long process to be able to become a wild life rehabilitator. one of these days I'll have my photography pay for my other hobbies.
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I'd love it if my photography could pay for anything, lol.
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yes yes, well I am having a show next month that I am hoping will pay for quite a bit of stuff. you should check out some of my things on my site when you have the time.
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Good luck with your show! I will look. . .
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Is that a wild vulture that just flew into your neighbor's yard?? Does that normally happen? That's crazy! How cool though.
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Yes, a wild vulture. I think this must be a very rare event.
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did u see this made it to the front page of popular birds?
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Really? I didn't know that. Cool!
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yeah, i noticed it today. thought u would enjoy knowing that.
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wow! i've never seen one close up like that before except at the zoo. great capture!
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WOW!
A VULTURE! We dont get anything like that here!!! Fancy that in your garden - I didnt think you got that even over there x
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It was really cool to see in person!
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Absolutely - it is amazing - in England we dont get anything like that! What does he come to eat in a garden? x
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They eat dead animals. yummy. 
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haha - do you have any laid about in the garden! Do you put meat out for them - the magpies come down in our garden to finish off the dogs dinners x
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No, I have never fed them. I think they get quite a stomach full thanks to man killing the poor animals around here with cars. Sad to say.
So we see them out here in our neighborhood a lot. I am always taking pictures of them.
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Ah that explains it then - whenever we drive out into the countryside I continually say God Bless, God Bless as I see the dead anmials on the road sides - I hate it x
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Me, too. So sad. Especially the deer. There aren't a lot of them here, because we built subdivisions in their forests. So sad.
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Awww - we dont have deer around here but we lived in amongst them when we went on hols to Scotland last year - we are going back in June this year cos we loved it so much x
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That sounds like fun!
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Yes - Nick is already counting the days!! We take our 3 dogs with us and it is heavenly there x
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That's what we usually have to do, bring the 4 dogs with us.
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