Matt's New Friend

I love this picture I took today, it is of Matthew and a vulture at the Birds of Prey centre. The course was awesome but the vulture cracked me up the way it walked alongside Matthew who was the last one to feed it

Cute, sounds like it was a good time, and looks like Matt enjoyed himself.

lol, great photo!

What a great photo and he looks such a nice lad.

wicked photo ruth , cant wait to see that one scarpped

Oh that is one great picture, you could almost think they were talking to each other.

yeah !!

nibbles ." Its allright for you matthew ,my bums getting wet in this long grass "
Matthew . "yeah well you're not having to do a michael jackson impression are you"...(one glove )

If you look at the vulture's face he is blushing, they blush when they are excited and then their faces pale to white again when they calm down. They are ugly b*g**rs but they are absolutely fascinating creatures, they are on the critical list for extinction due to diclofenac, a drug I know a few of us take. In Africa people are valued for the size of cow herd they have, the more cows, the more important they are. Vultures will eat cows so someone discovered that if you put diclofenac into the cows food and then the vulture tried to eat the cow it would be dead within two days because of the diclofenac. The use of diclofenac has now been banned however the farmers have huge stockpiles of the stuff and the use of those wasn't banned so they are trying to capture as many vultures as possible and rear them in huge aviaries so that when all the diclofenac has run out there will still be vultures left. They also make a lovely purring noise and some of them love being tickled!

kimb wrote:yeah !!

nibbles ." Its allright for you matthew ,my bums getting wet in this long grass "
Matthew . "yeah well you're not having to do a michael jackson impression are you"...(one glove )

LOL!!

dont like vultures but i can see that Matthew enjoyed his time, super photo...

sp01goat wrote:dont like vultures but i can see that Matthew enjoyed his time, super photo...

Nor did I Sue but seeing them up close they are quirky creatures, they knew the handlers so well, and each had a distinct personality, I am a vulture lover now

Awwwwww that vulture is quite cute glad Matt had a great day!

Gosh i didnt know that - thats really interesting Ruth. there is a Griffin Vulture sanctuary in the mountains near to here.

Maria wrote:Gosh i didnt know that - thats really interesting Ruth. there is a Griffin Vulture sanctuary in the mountains near to here.

Very few people know they are under threat because they are ugly wotnots, not cute like pandas, but they are dying out quicker than the dodo did

I can't compete with a vulture but I did get to hold an owl today.
I forgot my camera so paid for a photo - have taken a photo of the photo
(I don't have a scanner) and will see if it has turned out.

Brill pic and interesting info there, Ruth.

What a great dAY, AND A LOVELY SMILE HE HAS THERE, ENJOYED READING ABOUT THIS, oops sorry, looking forward to seeing it scrapped.