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Re: Turkey Vultures, Marshall, Missouri
« Reply #180 on: June 15, 2022, 06:21:53 AM »

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Re: Turkey Vultures, Marshall, Missouri
« Reply #181 on: June 21, 2022, 12:36:30 PM »

They sure grew this last week...

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Re: Turkey Vultures, Marshall, Missouri
« Reply #182 on: June 22, 2022, 11:27:59 AM »

Nora, whatever the chicks are eating, it's sure nutritious!

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Re: Turkey Vultures, Marshall, Missouri
« Reply #183 on: June 22, 2022, 12:15:10 PM »

Dead things?  ;)

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Re: Turkey Vultures, Marshall, Missouri
« Reply #184 on: June 25, 2022, 12:08:29 PM »

Well, ya, they are the cleaner-uppers of the bird world, so lots of nutritious stuff.

Big bird feathers are emerging along wing edges, seen in the stretched out wing of one of the chicks.  Not only do they stand up straight, they can run a few steps.

Do vulture chicks have a special name, like "eyas" for peregrine falcons?

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Re: Turkey Vultures, Marshall, Missouri
« Reply #185 on: June 26, 2022, 07:23:44 AM »

hi nora! boy they got big this week!  :)
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Re: Turkey Vultures, Marshall, Missouri
« Reply #186 on: June 27, 2022, 11:06:33 AM »

Hi Cal.  They sure did, boy those wings!

STLbf -- A baby vulture is called a vulture chick.

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Re: Turkey Vultures, Marshall, Missouri
« Reply #187 on: June 29, 2022, 01:07:07 PM »

To whom it may concern,
Last evening I thought I heard someone flinging rocks into the loft. Chicks were huddled against the left wall, and were not involved.
FYI

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Re: Turkey Vultures, Marshall, Missouri
« Reply #188 on: July 01, 2022, 04:28:04 PM »

I meant the right wall under the window.

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Re: Turkey Vultures, Marshall, Missouri
« Reply #189 on: July 01, 2022, 04:38:22 PM »

Sounds like rocks being thrown right now. Who can turn camera and stop it if true?  Babies could be hurt or killed.

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Re: Turkey Vultures, Marshall, Missouri
« Reply #190 on: July 02, 2022, 05:44:13 AM »

joho saw later babies are okay be hot for them rain coming today then 100 for weekend and 4th i just checked on them they are fine

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Re: Turkey Vultures, Marshall, Missouri
« Reply #191 on: July 02, 2022, 03:31:22 PM »

Rewind sounds like it was raining at the barn.  About 3:00, a parent brought food.  Chicks really growing big.  Seems like they are not self-feeding yet. Parent left quickly.

Happy Fourth of July to all of the MO turkey vultures and the watchers and posters!

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Re: Turkey Vultures, Marshall, Missouri
« Reply #192 on: July 03, 2022, 06:18:23 AM »

hi stlbf i checked the forecast cause it has rained here and saw it did rain there. they changed the heat to tomorrow heat advisory will be tomorrow thru thru. 105-110 i hope cooler for them tv babies. i hate this weather every day i checked the weather in icelands capital it is 55 there cloudy  Happy Fourth to all too! GB Ukraine!
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Re: Turkey Vultures, Marshall, Missouri
« Reply #193 on: July 05, 2022, 05:20:26 PM »

One of the babies is sick.  Coughing, sneezing and trying to spit something out.   Can we do anything?  Do they get bird flue, or could there be something stuck in the throat?  Like chickens, and I guess wild birds.
It is getting worse.

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