Date: 11/7/26 5:58 pm From: Deborah <d5me16...> Subject: Re: You never know what you will see here at our Penns Valley place
Nice capture of vultures. Thanks for the description.
Deb
On Sat, 7 Nov 2026 at 8:26 PM Ramsey, Lawrence William <lwr...> wrote:
> During breakfast today we saw two Black Vultures (BLVU) on the roof of our
> barn which we have occasionally seen before. Then bit before noon today
> Mary called to me from the kitchen saying a Black Vulture (BLVU) was in the
> patio bird bath. I was on the second floor in my ""office ad looked out the
> window and saw 3 BLVU nearby on the breakfast nook roof near the birdbath
> and grabbed a camera and got some quick photos (attached BLVU-1 thru 3)
> then went downstairs to see the one in the birdbath but it had moved to the
> chair at our patio table about 15 ft away (BLVU_4). When downloading on
> the computer and looking at the pics, it was clear that the head plumage
> patter on all four were different. BLVU 1 thru 5 were juvenile molts and
> BLVU_4 was adult plumage per Birds of the World. Never notice this
> before; still learning something new after eight decades!
> Larry
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