I have reached LIGHT nirvana with a Turkey Vulture

[HAB911]

if not QUALITY/DETAIL nirvana.

Had they not been so high there would be more detail, but then I might not have been able to track him as well. Either way, I'm majorly satisfied with this one.

The little inset is how he looked in the viewfinder @ 1200mm, so you know he was up there.😁

[Achilleaze]

1. Bueno

[FalloutShelter]

2. Beautiful

[Walleye]

3. Very cool! Their wings do amazing color changes when the flash the reflections

[SheltieLover]

4. Wow!

[Ocelot II]

5. Great photo!

[blm]

6. Wowza.

[Leghorn21]

7. Breathtaking!!

HAB!!!

[Ziggysmom]

8. A gorgeous photo! I love vultures, they remind me of turkeys. My dad raised a few wild looking

turkeys on the farm when I was a kid. I think bald headed birds are cute

[HAB911]

15. You'll love this guy then!

Came up into my backyard and looked around, eying me warily. (I added the mask, lol)

[Ziggysmom]

21. Oh my goodness! I have got to print that photo for my office! Hope you or the gobbler

wont mind? The mask is a great touch! He's undoubtedly much more intelligent then all the repubes put together! Thanks for the smiles this will bring 😊

[HAB911]

27. For sure! If you would like one sans mask

let me know!

[Pinback]

28. Masks are for turkeys!!1!111!!

Great Photoshoppery. Even a bird with a brain the size of a pecan knows enough to wear a mask.

[AndyS]

9. Nice! nt

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

10. Beauty!

Good job!

[FuzzyRabbit]

11. WOW! Nice.

[Wounded Bear]

12. Helluva shot there!

[Hekate]

13. Beautiful!

[BobTheSubgenius]

14. Beautiful.

Just majestic!!

[Tumbulu]

16. Oh thank you for this!

So beautiful! I love these animals so very much.

[The Jungle 1]

17. Clean up crew

I don't understand how the know something died. They show up in no time.
Twice I have had dead deer on my property. They clean it to the bone in two days.

[Kali]

25. smell

highly developed in these birds

[CaliforniaPeggy]

18. Incredibly beautiful detail, my dear HAB!! Just love this. Thank You!! ♥

[Grumpy Old Guy]

19. Nice!!!!

Did you use Topaz on it?

[HAB911]

37. yes, just DeNoise AI

but virtually no blur/focus, almost only noise because it is so heavily cropped and it's my Df which is only a 16MP sensor. Most bizarrely, and for the first time ever, I could make no improvements in Lightroom with my normal adj of shadow and blacks, this is pretty much the raw shot, which tells me it is just serendipity. Lucky me. Take 100s and finally get one that brings it all together.

I'm like a crackhead with these soaring birds, no matter how many really good photos I have, there is always the chance of grabbing that one that will blow my mind, I just can't stop! All the soaring birds are just so graceful and majestic.

[iluvtennis]

20. Remarkable! Thanks for sharing. n/t

[Callalily]

22. Amazing photo!

[ShazzieB]

23. That is astounding!

I can't even ... there are no words.

Wow. Just WOW.

[elleng]

24. WOW!!!

[electric_blue68]

26. Look at those glorious wings!!! 💖👍

[Pinback]

29. Absolutely great.

The backlit wings and the angle of the head give this shot a drama that is striking.

Gotta say, that's the nicest looking vulture I ever saw! They can be right purdy -- from a distance!

[Withywindle]

30. Absolutely GORGEOUS

I love these birds so much (they get a bad rap, they're very important to the ecosystem) and the capture of the light on the feathers is just majestic. Thank you for sharing this!

[tblue37]

31. Stunning photo. nt

[Skittles]

32. oh wow, what a treat

when I lived in rural Texas I would be mesmerized watching turkey vultures glide in graceful circles in the sky.....on land they look hideous but in the air they are majestic!

[COL Mustard]

33. I thought you were going to say

if you don't eat me, I won't eat you.

[George McGovern]

34. Magnificent HAB911!

[StarryNite]

35. Amazing photo.

[Schmice3]

36. I could look at this all day.

Incredible picture. Thank you.

[HAB911]

38. Thanks for all the kind words, it's what we live for!

[Joinfortmill]

39. Wow

[lark]

40. Amazing capture of light filtering through his feathers!

So beautiful!

[Larissa]

41. Golden wings

Thanks for the beautiful photo of the glowing, golden wings of the turkey vulture. In North America turkey vultures are sometimes referred to as buzzards, as is done in the video below. On some occasions, when I am tooling around in New Jersey, I will see a flock of turkey buzzards high in the sky. If I can I stop to watch them because their flight is so magnificent, the true essence of flying. They seem to do it without barely a breeze. Your thoughts can be carried aloft just seeing it. In the video, these birds are circling above their roost. Not carrion.

[CaptainTruth]

42. Damn that's good!