I was working in my garage on Sunday and noticed a Black Vulture chowing down on some road kill rabbit at the front of my house, near my driveway.
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- Texas rabbit dead just in front of my house. (road kill)
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- Black vulture knows it is there
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- Grackles like to harass the vulture.
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- The Black Vulture landed in the street, right behind my mailbox.
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- It’s taking a casual stoll up to the road kill.
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- Almost there. When I first saw the vulture it was already dining, but flew off.
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- Yep, still tasty.
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- It ate a few good chomps, then flew off again. It’ll be back!
It’s not everyday I see a Black Vulture (No it is NOT a Turkey Vulture) in my neighborhood. I have seen them several times while driving in the countryside. They are much larger than a crow and the grey head gives away that it is a Black Vulture. Turkey vultures have a red head and is the red head that associates their name to turkeys.
I think it is rather impressive and it is just doing its job, cleaning up the environment.
I grabbed my Sony NEX-5 and slapped on the Minolta 100-200 mm telephoto and adapter. It is equal to a 150-300 mm in 35mm cameras. I was standing in the door of the garage when I shot these photos.
Casual lunch!