Wild Birds

Tennessee Wild Turkey 

Not be be mistaken for this 

Wild Turkey

which is made in Kentucky.

Although Kentucky is just a jump, 

skip and a hop away from 

TN....it is still not 

TN Wild Turkey.

Here we have an American 

Black Vulture.

Mind you, I had to look up the 

difference between a vulture and 

a buzzard.  Not realizing that it was not 

one in the same but going by

two different names. 

The pics above (internet images) of

the guy I normally see on the

side of the road eating off the 

dead bod of some animal that

failed to get out of the way of 

a car.

I always thought these were called

Turkey Buzzards but it appears

I was wrong. He is in fact

a vulture.

A turkey vulture.

They are really UGLY and they

have a face only a mom could 

LOVE!

Differences are~

Vulture has weak feet and can not pick up

dead prey on the side of the road. Hence

why you seeing them eating off the road.

They also have no feathers on their neck and head.

Buzzards however have strong feet and normally

do not eat off the road but pick up

live prey or steal from nest. 

They have feathers that cover 

their neck and head.

A hawk is a form of a Buzzard. 

~ Cardinals ~

This is the visitor we had this morn.

Have you ever watched your cat or

another cat dart away from a 

cardnial? 

Lily does even though she is on the deck.

So I did some reading on it a yr

of so ago but went back this morn

to refresh my stalled brain...

Cats unlike dogs see color.

However red is one color they

do not see. This surprises me since

Lily Bit loves the red laser light she

chases. But red appears as gray or

black to them. So a female cardnial being

lighter than the male probably looks

gray where the male might be

an over powering black to them.

Lily can be sitting on her perch on 

the deck....right in front

of the feeder, 

and be just fine.....UNTIL

a male cardnials come up.

She will jump down, meow and 

run, most times into the house.