We have tons of turkey vultures here. They do a service--eating all the road kill around these parts. This past week, I've seen lots of dead bunnies on the roads. It's so funny to think that we live less than 200 miles apart, and I see things every day that you all never see in the city. My youngest and I have been observing, when I drive her to school, how a dead deer carcass in a denuded corn field has been feeding crows for a while now. The cold has kept the carcass "on ice".
I forget that you city folks don't have wild animals.

There is actually a division of urban fauna here in NYC.

We have a falcon that comes to hunt in our grounds for squirrels. Thing #1 even took pictures --you could hear it crunching on the bones ... YUCK! Sometimes it hunts at night and you can hear the squirrels squeaking as it gets killed ... Urgh!

Last year I saw an opposum on 23rd Street. People were freaking out, worried that it would cross the street and get killed.

We even had a wolf in central park --although I didn't get to see it.

There's the geese and the seagulls and the bluebirds too. And I did see once what looked like a woodpecker, I swear!

So really, I'm not that much of a weenie. I just think that eatine a smelly carcass off the road is gross.

Of course the kids heard the story and thought it was the coolest thing they've ever heard.

Those things are all over the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. You have to catch shuttle buses from one area to another at the KSC. Driving along those things are everywhere. Each and every one watches each and every bus go by.I kept wondering, what do they know that I don't?