Re: Bottom of the pecking order (New Jersey Vulture)

2013-09-29 Thread Alan C
Very interesting shot, Dan. I've never seen a vulture on the ground in town, although I have seen them flying overhead. Here, the vultures tend to follow the prides of lions. There are lot of game farms outside Kruger which have lions too, so the vultures have plenty of scope. Alan

Re: Bottom of the pecking order (New Jersey Vulture)

2013-09-29 Thread Bob W
I saw them in and around towns quite often in Ethiopia, around Harar where they perch on the rooves of the buildings around the market, scavenging bits of camel. I saw a whole bunch of them with their heads inside a cow just on the outskirts of town. In the Cevennes in France I saw a lot on

Re: Bottom of the pecking order (New Jersey Vulture)

2013-09-29 Thread John
There aren't many lions left in the eastern U.S. so around here they have to follow pickup trucks SUVs. On 9/29/2013 10:01 AM, Alan C wrote: Very interesting shot, Dan. I've never seen a vulture on the ground in town, although I have seen them flying overhead. Here, the vultures tend to follow