Kamanibill
Wednesday 3rd January 2007, 16:26
Howdy,
For the last couple of years I have been seeing a large roost of vultures near my home in Houston, Texas County, Mo. It is a mixed roost in that it has both Black and Turkey vultures within it.
Both years I have noticed that they start roosting in Nov. with low numbers gradually build in numbers up to about 100 birds. Then almost over night they all leave at the end of Dec. It appears to me that they are using this area as a staging ground for their big push down further south as I know that at Table Rock lake there is a huge winter roost there also.
Has staging like this been obseerved elsewhere?
Bill
For the last couple of years I have been seeing a large roost of vultures near my home in Houston, Texas County, Mo. It is a mixed roost in that it has both Black and Turkey vultures within it.
Both years I have noticed that they start roosting in Nov. with low numbers gradually build in numbers up to about 100 birds. Then almost over night they all leave at the end of Dec. It appears to me that they are using this area as a staging ground for their big push down further south as I know that at Table Rock lake there is a huge winter roost there also.
Has staging like this been obseerved elsewhere?
Bill