Vultures Doing the Wild Thing (Ever Seen That Before?)

So….a game camera gets set up to watch a hollow tree. Cougars, bears, opossum all visit the spot. “Many, many animals examine the hole in the tree,” says Kim Cabrera, a wildlife tracker who runs a blog called Animal Tracks Den and who positioned the camera. But then this March, a pair of vultures make it their love nest.

The game camera catches a little sex (okay, a lot of sex)  and some nest building (which does not involve much at all.) This video takes you through a month at the mouth of a vulture nest.

Like this? Then keep an eye out for part two where we may see the fluffy vulture chicks.

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Only have time for the highlights?

4:16–Is that kissing?

4:50–She shakes him off.

10:15–Yep, more of them doing the wild thing.

13:50–A little nest switch off.

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geoffrey davis
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geoffrey davis
8 years ago

GREETINGS H.O.H.O….. SEENIT B-4?….. YEP, BUTT I FEAR YOUVE FALLEN INTO THE HUMAN TRAP OF ASSUMPTION………..EYE BEN WATCHING A DOUBLE/GANGER OF THIS MADRONE ON GIZZLEY MOUNTIAN FOR SEVERAL YEARS,SAME SIZE HOLE ..,MOSTLY USED AS A BEAR DEN, AND SOW CANT GET ALL THE WAY IN, THOUGH SOMTHING STILL DIGGIN ON THE FRONT OF IT TRYIN TO ENLARGE IT….. NOT EXACTY SURE HOW SHE SUCKLES HER YOUNGLY ONES, OR IF SHE BIRTHED THEM THERE, I THINK SHE POSSIBLY MOVED THEM THERE…. AND FEEDS THEM OUTSIDE. ON THE PORCH………TW0 YEARS AGO HUMANS MOVED INTO WOODS NEARBY…. BYE, BYE, BABY BEARS….. MAN HAS ENTERED THE WOODS……… BEARS WENT OVER THE MOUNTAIN…….. IVE ALWAYS FELT THAT BUZZARD PORN IS WAY TOO SACRED FOR MOST HUMAN EYES…… THINK YOU…… …………OMAWSTITWOO

HOGRANCH
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6 years ago

most of the buzzard clan are returning from cozumel around march, leaving there southern winter vacation home for a lot of hot free meals on the 101. some of the finest cusine ever, for local buzzards.

Anon Forrest
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Anon Forrest
6 years ago

My daughter and I found a vulture hanging out under our cabin one morning. We thought it was hurt! Nay, it was hollowing out a lee to build a place to lay its eggs! What a thrill to see; thank you. (No, the nest was not the “place” for them. Darn.)

Layla DiStefano
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Layla DiStefano
5 years ago
Reply to  Anon Forrest

I just got to see them do their ‘thing’ in a big tree in my back yard! It was actually scary AF LoL 🦃 I wasn’t sure what was going on at first, but it was so loud! With their big giant wings flapping all over the place and the branches sounding as if they were going to break and fall to the ground! It was definitely an amazing sight to see 😄

Zoltan
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5 years ago

Condors love to bathe in high altitude ponds that have little clams above southern ,Central Valley.daily after eating rotting flesh.algal ponds ( beginning of food chain)enchant birds.