>From its inception, the epicenter of the above has been the Roanoke Ave Elementary School, right opposite the new Riverhead Fire Department Headquarters Building. The chimney of the school has been the vultures favorite resting spot on the school (I've seen as many as 16 birds on it at the same time) and this perch can be seen from the parking lot of the Riverhead Free Library. Although I knew that the library was closed because of the coronavirus, I still thought I could return the books I had read in the outside receptacles, as I normally do...but that was not the case today. All 4 return receptacles had their receiving ports duct-taped closed...I guess they didn't want their books waiting there until the library was once again open for business. From habit, before leaving the parking lot, I checked out the school's chimney, and while there were no vultures on it, there was 1 on the F.D's antenna. Upon arrival, I was pleasantly surprised to find it to be a Black Vulture...the time was 1620. After checking all the other roosts (I did find 1 Turkey Vulture in the spruces on the w/s of Roanoke Ave, at the intersection of Elton St., as well as 1 flying overhead) when I returned to the F.D. (~ 1645) the B.V. was gone...but only across the street to the school's chimney !
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