My experience with timing of Turkey vulture egg laid in my boathouse about May 
11, 2022:

Egg probably hatched June 17, producing a white, downy chick with a black face 
and beak.
The nestling (sitting on just beach gravel, so not much of a "nest").
Chick sat with its beak resting straight down on the gravel much of the time.
It hissed if I came near it, which I did not do very much.
Parent was with it some of the time, but parent out hunting a lot.

I looked up TVs in "Birds of the World" and it (and Robyn Bailey) said that TV 
chicks are very slow to mature, taking 2-3 months to fledge.
Towards the end of August the chick was wandering around in the boathouse and 
was by then mostly black feathered.
I have photos.

By third week of August I saw Hissy was gone from inside and not at the place 
outside the boathouse where it usually went by then.
I saw Hissy fly on August 24, 2020. So a little over 2 months since it hatched.

Its face & beak by now was gray, as was its feet. Its feet may have been gray 
from hatching, but not sure because I could not see them.

It hung around the area by itself for several days.
I saw it perched on the boathouse second story deck railing.
 One time it perched over me in a big oak tree that overhung the RR track that 
is in my former backyard.

By this time I had moved to Kendal and was not at 535 Lansing Station Rd very 
much. 
House sale closing early September and I was not there anymore.

Realtor joked: "Turkey Vulture conveys with house!"
Lawyer joked that this was the first time she had to consider a turkey vulture 
during a house sale.

I have no contact with new owners, so do not know if the TV tried to nest there 
again.

Donna

Donna L Scott

377 Savage Farm Dr
Ithaca, NY 14850
d...@cornell.edu

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Cool.

Donna Scott, what is your experience with timing of eggs and chicks in the nest 
in your boathouse a couple of years ago?

Abandoned shack in the woods sounds PERFECT for a Turkey Vulture nest!

Kevin

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In late April I found a Turkey Vulture scraping around in the domestic debris 
on the floor of one of our abandoned shacks deep in the woods. I coded it as NB 
(nest building). 

Over the next few weeks I observed several comings and goings that I 
interpreted hopefully as shift-changes. She’s still in there today. 

Sitting in a scrape in the trash for five weeks running seems so purposeful 
that I feel pretty confident there must be an egg or two, soon to hatch…

-Geo


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