Leave Only Footprints, Take Only Photos
"There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before." - Robert Wilson Lynd
The first and most fundamental rule of nature hiking is to "leave only footprints and take only photos." It occurred to me when I was editing the photos from my walk in Mud Creek Park Friday (January 25, 2013) that vultures are the epitome of this maxim: "leave no trace."
I am very tempted to climb on the soapbox and go off on a tangent here, but I suspect I would only be preaching to the choir. Put very simply, carelessly discarding plastic beverage bottles and cans is disgraceful. Tagging is abhorrent.
Anyway, I could never have imagined referring to anything related to vultures as "cute", and maybe that isn't quite the right word here, but this pair makes me think of a couple that has been together for a very long time sitting on a park bench. The interaction between the two says more than I could ever hope to write. I will let the photos of this pair of black vultures tell their own story.
I am very tempted to climb on the soapbox and go off on a tangent here, but I suspect I would only be preaching to the choir. Put very simply, carelessly discarding plastic beverage bottles and cans is disgraceful. Tagging is abhorrent.
Anyway, I could never have imagined referring to anything related to vultures as "cute", and maybe that isn't quite the right word here, but this pair makes me think of a couple that has been together for a very long time sitting on a park bench. The interaction between the two says more than I could ever hope to write. I will let the photos of this pair of black vultures tell their own story.
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