Sunday Puzzle

Randy and Pamela Comeleo

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Mar 26, 2023, 12:13:30 PM3/26/23

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Four blobs of this stuff fell from the sky on us yesterday during a walk at E.E. Wilson Wildlife Area. Any guesses? (We know the answer)

Randy (and Pam)

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Karan Fairchild

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Mar 26, 2023, 1:28:20 PM3/26/23

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Pretty gross! Sure looks like someone's innards. A red-tailed hawk was disturbed from a perch while eating and had to drop some of its prey while moving along? That's one possible scenario. A turkey vulture upchucked while flying over you? I would not be thrilled to have that dropped ON me! Fun puzzle!

Karan

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Four blobs of this stuff fell from the sky on us yesterday during a walk at E.E. Wilson Wildlife Area. Any guesses? (We know the answer)

Randy (and Pam)

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Linda Fink

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Mar 26, 2023, 1:39:24 PM3/26/23

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Oh my! I was thinking more in terms of slime mold falling off limbs. Now
I'm really curious...

Linda Fink

On 3/26/2023 10:28 AM, Karan Fairchild wrote:
> Pretty gross! Sure looks like someone's innards. A red-tailed hawk was
> disturbed from a perch while eating and had to drop some of its prey
> while moving along? That's one possible scenario. A turkey vulture
> upchucked while flying over you? I would not be thrilled to have that
> dropped ON me! Fun puzzle!
>
> Karan
>

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Randy and Pamela Comeleo

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Mar 26, 2023, 1:42:29 PM3/26/23

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Ding-ding-ding-ding-ding! We have a winner! We inadvertently startled a pair of vultures on the ground hidden by shrubs along one of the roads. As they got airborne and passed low overhead they vomited four blobs of fresh food on us. Luckily, the projectiles all missed their target!

Karan wins the valuable prize: the Rosemary Mosco cartoon 'I am a turkey vulture I am so awesome'!

Randy (and Pam)

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I am a Turkey Vulture Rosemary Mosco.gif

Jamie S.

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Mar 26, 2023, 1:43:52 PM3/26/23

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I like Karan's ideas... especially the turkey vulture since it seems a bit digested.

Jamie

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Karan Fairchild

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Mar 26, 2023, 1:49:42 PM3/26/23

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Woo hoo! Thanks! I'd heard of turkey vultures doing that, but never witnessed it. And hope NOT to ever witness it! Funny cartoon! And I do love turkey vultures.

Karan

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Randy and Pamela Comeleo

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Mar 26, 2023, 1:51:09 PM3/26/23

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The vomit seemed surprisingly fresh and did not smell. There are videos on the web where they vomit more digested, dark, smelly stuff. We guess this was more regurgitation than vomit. After they left, I bashed my way through the blackberry to try and find what they were scavenging (we could smell something) but couldn't find anything.

Randy (and Pam)

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Gayle Peterson

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Mar 26, 2023, 2:05:58 PM3/26/23

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Awesome! I am loving that cartoon.

Gayle Peterson

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Karan Fairchild

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Mar 26, 2023, 2:14:58 PM3/26/23

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Yes, it sure did look fresh (relatively). I'm glad, for your sake!

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Joel Geier

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Mar 26, 2023, 2:44:21 PM3/26/23

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Thank you Randy & Pam for sharing that lovely photo. I found it just as I was eating my breakfast this morning!

There's an outside chance that those globs might have originally come from a large Opossum that got killed by traffic along the highway by our place on Friday morning.

I shifted it off of the highway into the west edge of E.E. Wilson, so that the vultures could work on it without getting hit by traffic. It took them just a few hours to find it.

About an hour later, Becky and I got curious why several vultures were circling low without landing, so we drove up the road to watch from where Adair Frontage Road overlooks that area. By that time there was just one vulture working on the carcass, and that bird wasn't in a "sharing" mood. The others gradually drifted away.

I checked back this morning. There was nothing left but bones and that long rope of a possum tail.

Joel

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Donald Gunther

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Mar 26, 2023, 10:13:08 PM3/26/23

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Did you stray too close to a heron rookery?

On Sun, Mar 26, 2023, 9:13 AM Randy and Pamela Comeleo <rott...@peak.org> wrote:

Four blobs of this stuff fell from the sky on us yesterday during a walk at E.E. Wilson Wildlife Area. Any guesses? (We know the answer)

Randy (and Pam)

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