Buzzards!

Dave and I went out to our house to do some work today. Siding is going up and I'll have more on that shortly, but in the mean time, I had to post these photos. The 2nd one is kinda gross so proceed with caution.

As we were traveling out there, we thought we saw two turkeys on one of the roads you cross to get to our place. We thought we'd get a closer look and we stumbled across this guy.


See him on the right side of the photo flying away? It wasn't a turkey as we thought. It was a turkey vulture (commonly known as a buzzard). It was huge! We estimated it's wing span was in the 4 to 5 foot range. Yep, feet! It was huge. Giant bumblebees and now huge buzzards - I'm pretty sure the realtor never mentioned any of this.

Here's a closer photo for those who are interested.


Yep, it was pretty gross. When we left to head home 5 hours later, there were still 2 buzzards cleaning up the road. I told Dave he'll have to be really careful and not get hurt while we are building. I bet these guys could smell blood from miles away. Thank God my mom got us a first aid kit.