Tag: carrion birds
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The Gang’s All Here
photo courtesy of Abhishek Singh on Unsplash Living in Orlando provides us with the unexpected and unusual. Besides all the theme parks and kitschy places to shop and eat, we have unusual birds, which have many birders (that’s what they’re called!) lurking around, staring at the world through binoculars. We’ve got flamingos in all…
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The Long And Short Of Life
At first glance, it looked like a scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds”. Instead of seagulls and crows filling the picture, it was a flock of turkey vultures. Not my favorite winged animal. They are present in Florida year-round, Seeing them reminds folks that something dead is around. They’re carrion birds. Eating things already dead.…
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A Carrion Bird By Any Name Still Eats Road Kill
I’d been in the house too long and was feeling a bad case of the frumps. My nose had been buried in my computer. Eyes bleary. Neck aching. My brain quickly turning to quirky. Which could explain this post. It was one of those days, however, that just calls to you to come out and…
Tip of My Iceberg 