I rarely see these up this close in Maryland.
I know, I know: it vaguely looks like a crow, but it’s a turkey buzzard. I mean, why would I lie about it?
Moe Lane
PS: Well, I wasn’t going to get out of the dang car and get a closeup. Turkey buzzards are scavengers; I’m sure that they’re harmless, but I fully expect them to smell bad, and probably use vomit as a weapon*. So I don’t hassle it, it doesn’t hassle me, it’s all good.
*Hold on, let me check that… HA! They do. Well, I knew that condors do that, so it only stands to reason.
Weird. I would have assumed vultures were a common sight in the DC area.
So condors, vultures, and Democrats all use vomit as a weapon… good to know…
That’s an omen. *rolls dice w/ -10 modifier and gets a total of 49* A bad omen. Good luck!
Something is going on with Turkey Vultures this year. We normally don’t see them at all but this year my wife and I have seen two, one fairly up close. An Omen maybe of thing to come.
Crows are supposedly a harbinger of war. I don’t really want to think what vultures are an omen of.
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Could be worse, I guess. Zombie carrier pigeons. Red-wing blackbirds (hey, one tried attacking me once). Ostriches. Rheas. Rhea Perlmans.