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 -----Original Message----- From: bounce-127459297-15001...@list.cornell.edu <bounce-127459297-15001...@list.cornell.edu> On Behalf Of Kevin J. McGowan Sent: Monday, June 5, 2023 9:14 PM To: Geo Kloppel <geoklop...@gmail.com>; CAYUGABIRDS-L <cayugabird...@list.cornell.edu> Subject: RE: [cayugabirds-l] Turkey Vulture egg(s) 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 -----Original Message----- From: bounce-127459109-3493...@list.cornell.edu <bounce-127459109-3493...@list.cornell.edu> On Behalf Of Geo Kloppel Sent: Monday, June 5, 2023 8:09 PM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L <cayugabird...@list.cornell.edu> Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Turkey Vulture egg(s) 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 -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
