I ran into Laura outside of the grocery story today. She told me a story about discovering a Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura) nest in an old tree stump on her property recently. It reminded both of us of the time a vulture nest was found in the Bodega Dunes. I didn't have a great camera setup at that time, so this is Haruka Wada's photo (I think).
If I remember right, the vulture in the photo was ~20 days old. Back then, I hadn't seen a downy juvenile vulture before, so I was surprised to see how white it was. I think it takes ~60 days or so before all of their black feathers come in.
Photographed in the Bodega Dunes on 24 May 2006. (Hard to believe this was 19 years ago!)
P.S. Thanks to Laura for the memory and to Haruka for the photo!
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