Friday was a trip on the wild side for our house. I was on our back porch when this huge bird flew in carrying something long it looked like a snake or the spine of some dead animal. It was a Turkey Vulture. It landed and began munching on its little snack.


When I looked back a little later our cat Shadow was sitting there watching it eat and he kept getting closer and closer. The vulture was not intimidated at all in fact it began to move towards Shadow but Shadow was not to be intimidated either.



The posturing went on for sometime but finally Shadow got board and wandered off. The vulture ate until it was full and then it flew away. Wow this was a big bird those of you who have know our Shadow you will know how big this bird was.



Later that night Will and I went out to see what the vulture had been eating. I found some snake skin and said oh it was a snake; Will reached over to grab a stick to move it with and instead grabbed the entire skeleton of the snake!!! He thought it was a stick I yelled EWWWWW!!! It was so funny I never saw anyone drop anything so fast in their lives.

He very bravely picked it back up and took it to the trash can. He said that it was a little too late to worry about germs. It was great.