cathartes

Taken at the Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline at about 100m. That's the Bay Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge in the background! Didn't realize how clear the sky/air was until I got home and processed this photo. Talk about clear air, that's almost 25 km (16 miles) to the visible...

I was so much on auto-pilot when processing the images from my last outing, that I accidentally posted this same image in it's original crooked form. So here it is in it's straightened-out and better cropped form. Taken at the Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline at about 100m. That's the...

Taken at the Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline at about 100m. I'll be the first to admit getting such a clear photo of a moving bird, slow soaring or not, at this distance, with a bridge camera, is as much luck as it is skill. But we had a few low-soaring Turkey Vultures the entire...

Taken at the Shadow Cliffs Regional Recreation Area (Lake Boris). Fairly common bird, but difficult to photograph: either flying, roosting amongst branches, or roosting in contrasty or backlit conditions relative to us (bad luck?). So I always make the attempt, just for the challenge (a bit...

Taken at the Shadow Cliffs Regional Recreation Area (Lake Boris) at about 50m. This is something we had never seen before: roosting Turkey Vultures. See them flying all the time, but never on the ground or in a tree. But we found a ground of 45 individuals at a distance and had fun watching...

Taken at the Shadow Cliffs Regional Recreation Area (Lake Boris) at over 50m. Terribly over-exposed, but an interesting look at the wing feathers.

Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture (Cathartes burrovianus burrovianus). Photographed south of Antn towards the Pacific Ocean, Cocl Province, Panama. Pacific lowlands, highly disturbed dry tropical forest with open pastures for cattle grazing at ca. 20 m (66 ft) elevation.

Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura septentionalis) Photographed just outside of Goose Island State Park, Aransas County, Texas, USA. Disturbed coastal prairie with surrounding coastal woods at ca. 2 m (6.6 ft) elevation. This Turkey vulture had some whitish (beige) feathers on the left side of...

Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura) Seven subspecies have been described while four to six are recognized, author dependent. Two are mapped for Texas and though it was not Sibleys intent his map separating birds in Texas from summer to year round is probably not too far off separating the two...

Just catching some sunlight, I guess