Turkey Vultures

Today is the exact midpoint of winter in the Northern Hemisphere, halfway between the winter solstice and spring equinox. This…

I reviewed a beer for Hallowe’en last week, but with All Saints’ Day falling on Wednesday and All Souls’ Day…

On the final leg of my “Old Home Week”, I travel out to Dog Lake, a pristine high mountain lake,…

Christmas morning I looked out my window and saw something I had only seen once before in my backyard, a…

Today’s blog was written by Kathy Hershey, co-founder of Utopia Wildlife Rehabilitators in Hope, Indiana. The voice on the other…

I’m currently in one of my favorite states: exhausted (maybe even a tiny bit tipsy) in a hotel room sorting…

The upside of rehabbing Turkey Vultures is they’re smart, funny, cool, fascinating birds. The downside is sometimes they’ll bite you and…

The Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura) is probably one of the most misunderstood birds in North America. Some people think they…

My rehabber friend Lisa Acton, who is with Animal Kingdom USA Wildlife Rehabilitation, picked up her phone and heard the…

It was Saturday afternoon.  I was chatting on the phone about blog stuff with Mike, as we tend to do,…