7 October 2025 (unseasonable heat)

unseasonable heat

a dozen vultures circling

the mountaintop

2 April 2025 (spring runoff)

spring runoff —

a vulture dipping low

over the river bank

15 October 2024 (cold rain)

cold rain

turkeys huddled in a field

turn out to be vultures

2 February 2024 (first vulture)

first vulture

or maybe it never left

February thaw

26 March 2023 (sun halo)

sun halo

the overlapping circles

of vultures in flight

14 March 2022 (vultures)

right on time . . .

vultures spiraling

northward

11 March 2022 (skunk cabbage)

skunk cabbage . . .

arriving vultures

find a thermal

22 February 2022 (vulture)

first vulture of spring . . .

imagining the past lives

of this old pine

7 August 2021 (roost)

rising heat

vultures at the roost

spread their wings

12 March 2021 (vultures)

spring approaching vultures

1 March 2020 (vultures)

Early-arriving Turkey Vultures are one of my favorite signs that spring is on its way. They are beautiful in flight.

late winter

circling vultures

reveal thermals