mooose29
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Turkey Vultures
So we have all heard about cows on the road a having to slow down and be careful but here is a warning for all us Baja drivers about the Turkey
Vulture.
We have all probably passed 1000's of turkey vultures on the side of the road eating road kill a couple days ago my parents were driving north from
Punta Chivato and were just north of Alfonsina's when they came upon (what do you call a group of vultures anyway (flock)?) eating something on the
side of the road. Dad slows down although the birds were well off to the side. As he gets close to the birds they take off to the right and into the
desert however one Darwin award winner decided to take off low and left and flew right into the front of the suburban.
Bam it was a huge hit and he was worried it had broken stuff in the front of the suburban. Stop get out and look and everything is intact and all is
good nothing leaking or broken.
Fast forward a couple of hours and he is in line at the border and the suburban for the first time ever starts overheating in line, get out open the
hood check the coolant and all looks normal, WTF gets the car cooled down crosses and all is normal.
Takes car to our mechanic today and the impact broke the lower part of the radiator apparently there are some plastic parts in there that break easily
with hard hits and got smashed in and because the top part was not damaged it still looked like the radiator was full of fluid in the reservoir when
he checked it but all the fluid in the lower half drained out while driving.
certainly an expensive hit.
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Not to mention the smell of buzzard cooking
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bajabuddha
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Whatever it was cooking, I DON'T want the recipe... 
I don't have a BUCKET LIST, but I do have a F***- IT LIST a mile long!
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Skipjack Joe
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Was the bird all right?
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You DID perform CPR? Right???????
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A comedian contest. 
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mooose29
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When I told my 15 year old son he asked if the bird was stuck under the hood of Grandpas car. He wanted to see some cooked vulture
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bajabuddha
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All seriousness aside;
Turkey vultures are amazing creatures to watch fly and see at a distance; up close and personal they're ugly than my first mother-in-law. Keep in
mind they feed primarily on carrion... and most carrion when alive have ticks, fleas, etc. upon their bodies, and are still present when the host
dies. Those big black gutt-suckers are covered in them, not to mention every possible bad bacteria from..... need I say more? They're best viewed
at a distance. Part of nature? Yes. Essential part? Yes, again. Close to my house? NO. I never killed one, but I've popped a few in the fanny
with my BB gun if their daily roost was within range; they got the hint. Just 'noodged' them a little.
Hope one day to see a Condor; I hear they taste like chicken...... 
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The Day a Buzzard Creamed Us..
A little late, but I finally remembered this experience about a turkey vulture.
How many times have you wondered if that bunch of buzzards up ahead of you on the highway will get out of the way in time?
This was that fateful day the roadkill-eating buzzard creamed us on the highway near Santispac, Bay of Conception. We were going a mite too fast for
the overloaded bird to flap out of the way...and he came right between us and splatted into the gas tank behind our heads...losing part of his
roadside lunch that you can see stuck to the tank! Yecchh!
So the next time you see that group of buzzards feeding on roadkill up ahead...use a little caution and slow down! Some are a little slower than
others!
By the way, that buzzard survived this episode....we turned around and the dazed bird just hopped into the air and flapped away! Tough critter!
p.s. Hope I am not ruining anyone's breakfast or lunch?
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Quote: Originally posted by bajabuddha  | All seriousness aside;
Turkey vultures are amazing creatures to watch fly and see at a distance; up close and personal they're ugly than my first mother-in-law. Keep in
mind they feed primarily on carrion... and most carrion when alive have ticks, fleas, etc. upon their bodies, and are still present when the host
dies. Those big black gutt-suckers are covered in them, not to mention every possible bad bacteria from..... need I say more? They're best viewed
at a distance. Part of nature? Yes. Essential part? Yes, again. Close to my house? NO. I never killed one, but I've popped a few in the fanny
with my BB gun if their daily roost was within range; they got the hint. Just 'noodged' them a little.
Hope one day to see a Condor; I hear they taste like chicken......
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Last time i had one I thought it tasted more like a Spoted Owl
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North of Mulege, early morning:
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A "venue", from the Turkey Vulture Society :
A group of vultures is called a “Venue”. Vultures circling on thermals of hot air are also referred to as a “Kettle”, because they resemble the rising
bubbles in a boiling pot of water.
I hear the whales song
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| Quote: Originally posted by bajagrouper | | Vultures circling on thermals of hot air are also referred to as a “Kettle”, because they resemble the rising bubbles in a boiling pot of water.
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the same group of hallucinogen filled geniuses that named the constellations, eh?
[Edited on 6-17-2015 by woody with a view]
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mooose29
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The turkey vulture society? Man there is a group for everything. I figured the group was called something g as it seems like each group has it's own
name for the group.
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bajabuddha
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Great picture, Stux.......... as I said, beautiful, at a distance.
Have to share a story. Once-upon-a-time, we put in to do a river run of Westwater Canyon of the Colorado river. About 3 miles downstream from the
put-in on the right bank were a large gathering of both wild turkeys and turkey vultures all intermingling along the cobble-banks, picking bugs and
such, no segregation, no hassles. Must have been two dozen of each at least.
I thought, "No wonder they're called 'Turkey Vultures!". Of course, no camera handy. Another magnificent Nature Moment.
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Guess we all have similar photos... near Zacatitos
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No dinner date for this guy
¿Por qué tengo que cenar solo?
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