Katra wrote:

> And baby turkey vultures are cute as anything... ;-)
> Betty, (a local raptor rehabber), told me about her adventures in
> raising one. :-) Turns out that they tame too easily and can be a pain
> to make wild!
>
> Sadie would follow her around the house and untie her shoelaces, and
> LOVED to be handfed! When she tried to release her, Sadie hung out on
> local mailboxes and "begged" <G>. The neighbors were not quite sure what
> to do! LOL!
>
> She finally found a local turkey vulture roosting site and managed to
> complete the rehab. It would probably be best to raise these birds in
> pairs, even if you had to capture a wild baby to help work with the
> rescued one... IMHO anyway.
>
> There are many of these birds in the Texas hill country area, and I
> think that they are charming creatures! I've only taken in injured
> adults so far, (usually ones that survived being clipped by a car whilst
> consuming Texas speed bumps (aka armadillos) and needed remedial care.
> :-) )
>
> I personally like them. They have delighful personalties!

That's so funny. I actually have a turkey vulture story.

Someone told me there were turkey vulture hanging out on people's
rooves, then there was a story in the paper, gangs of turkey vultures
were eating peoples rooves.

So one Sunday morning, I'm reading my paper, drinking my coffee, keep
hearing some noise. Must be windy. Whatever. Gradually, as I woke
up, I'm like, what is that noise? Finally went into the livingroom.

Looked through the skylight to see this ENORMOUS bird on my fireplace
chimney. HEY! You aren't eating my new roof!!! (laugh) I went
outside to chase it away, there had to be a dozen of them on my roof.
Holy crow. No pun intended. Got the dog to bark at them and they
took off (yeah, like Rascal could get on the roof). They took off,
blocked out the sun and the whoosh whoosh whoosh of their wings
practically sucked up the atmosphere.

Was amazing.

nancy