This Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura) was circling around me last week, so I followed the advice given to me by one of my fellow photographers—I made sure that I moved periodically as I captured shots of this large bird with an impressive wingspan.
I will be away from home on a business trip starting tomorrow and I am not sure how often I will be able to update my blog. I wanted to alert readers in case they are concerned if they don’t see any movement for me for a number of days—the vultures probably have not made a meal of me yet. 
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Mike Powell 
a business trip? I’ve been trying to guess what your day job is… entomology professor? ornithologist? You are so knowledgeable about your subjects. Is all this an avocation?
I do mostly computer database stuff with some foreign languages too for my day job. Birds and bugs are something that I picked up when I started to get more serious about my photography–my mentor shoots flowers and a few bugs and I started with that and branched out.
Hope you get to go somewhere interesting, great shots of the Vulture..:-)
It seems wherever you go you find interesting subjects, I’m curious what you’ll find at your business meeting….
Happy to hear that you keep moving. That is an impressive wingspan.
Safe travels, Mike. Hope the trip is as easy as gliding like a vulture. 😀
Thanks, Sue. I think my flight today is taking advantage of a window in the weather. Yesterday it rained all day and “wintry mix” is forecast for tomorrow.
Bring your camera Mike, and have a safe trip!
I am taking along a little point-and-shoot and hope to get a few shots, maybe of Christmas things.