Vultures aren’t native to the UK so it’s pretty cool to see them soaring over our house. We have cliffs a stone throw from us where they nest. Today I saw a vulture tucking into a dead squirrel on our block. It didn’t seem to mind me getting close or even cars passing feet from it. A lot of the locals were interested as well so may be not that common.
As we have a lot of turkey vultures I thought it might be an immature turkey vulture but it was in fact a black vulture. Turns out that turkey vultures can smell their prey up to a mile away, but black vultures aren’t so good at that so they fly above the turkey vultures and pinch some of their prey.
Incidentally black vultures are new to New York state, only starting to nest here in the 90’s (Nine things to know about the black vulture).
