Turkey Vultures in Thornhill
by Leslie Dawn Knowles
(Thornhill, Ontario, Canada)
This morning around 8:30 am, I dropped my two boys off at school and as I was going towards Yonge Street and Clarke Ave, about a mile north of Steeles, I noticed many, many Turkey Vultures circling over a condo building on the west side of Yonge Street at Clarke.
I estimate there were at least 25-30 birds there.
As I looked around I noticed another flock of about the same size circling a construction site about a block south of there.
In the past few years I have seen the occasional bird up here but to see so many of them in a built up area was really something.
I presume they must be gathering to migrate for the winter.