A first for me

[megalomaniac]

Driving back from the coast I saw a couple buzzards picking carrion off a carcass just off the road. Nope, was 2 jakes! I've heard turkeys will eat fresh carrion, but this was the first time I've ever personally seen it. I'm not surprised by the behavior itself, but moreso surprised I've never witnessed it, and also surprised they were doing this 5ft from a fairly busy 2 lane highway.

 

[Bgoodman30]

Driving back from the coast I saw a couple buzzards picking carrion off a carcass just off the road. Nope, was 2 jakes! I've heard turkeys will eat fresh carrion, but this was the first time I've ever personally seen it. I'm not surprised by the behavior itself, but moreso surprised I've never witnessed it, and also surprised they were doing this 5ft from a fairly busy 2 lane highway.

Turkey buzzards !?

 

[megalomaniac]

Turkey buzzards !?

Turkey vultures have almost become as rare as wild turkeys since the damn black headed Rosie O'Donnell buzzards have taken over the world. But these 2 were most definitely wild turkey jakes and not turkey vultures.

 

[Wooden Arrow]

Driving back from the coast I saw a couple buzzards picking carrion off a carcass just off the road. Nope, was 2 jakes! I've heard turkeys will eat fresh carrion, but this was the first time I've ever personally seen it. I'm not surprised by the behavior itself, but moreso surprised I've never witnessed it, and also surprised they were doing this 5ft from a fairly busy 2 lane highway.

i've seen chickens doing that to road-kill, but on closer inspection, they were eating the maggots crawling around.

 

[Rakkin6]

Turkey vultures have almost become as rare as wild turkeys since the damn black headed ******* buzzards have taken over the world. But these 2 were most definitely wild turkey jakes and not turkey vultures.

Really, I got turkey vultures all over by me. I shoot those nasty black headed ones. They get up in the peak of the roofs in my neighborhood.

 

[CritterGitter]

Maybe the long drive was getting to you

 

[megalomaniac]

Really, I got turkey vultures all over by me. I shoot those nasty black headed ones. They get up in the peak of the roofs in my neighborhood.

Turkey vultures and black headed buzzards are too completely different. Animals. The black headed buzzards are taking over and the turkey vulture numbers are crashing

 

[megalomaniac]

i've seen chickens doing that to road-kill, but on closer inspection, they were eating the maggots crawling around.

Could have been picking maggots off the meat comma but it was too cold and killed looked too fresh for there to have been many maggots on it