Turkey Vultures On My Roof

During late december 2009 i had a flock of turkey vultures begin appearing on my roof from around 9am 12 pm.

Turkey vultures on my roof. All throughout summer and fall months turkey vultures make their nests in the tulsa area. But their moving around my roof wakes me up and leaves crap and feathers. There is one on the mailbox and at least 3 on the roof pecking biting and clawing at the shingles. At first i thought it was sort of cool until i saw they were pulling up the metal.

Directly across from the deer was another huge turkey vulture sitting on a roof. To find as many as 10 turkey vultures on the roof. These large birds rarely hunt live prey but instead live on already dead animals or carrion. The accumulation of bird feces on the roof can emit a strong odor and vultures can damage shingles and rubber roofs.

They are up high. For the past four weeks no matter where i am there is a turkey vulture. There are vultures flocking on a house just down the street in my neighborhood. I get up to 30 turkey vultures on my roof.

As i was entering the church parking lot there was a dead deer surrounded by maybe 6 8 turkey vultures. How to scare a vulture out of your yard. Both black and turkey vultures also affect the quality. If i care to go outside and yell i can chase them away.

My first encounter was several weeks ago. They can damage vehicles by scratching paint removing rubber seals and wipers and ripping vinyl seat covers from boats and tractors. These birds are a huge nuisance to home and business owners throughout the area for the immense damage they can do to a roof. There was also a single bird on a neighbor s roof and a pair snuggled together on another.

A vulture typically poses little to no problems in the yard but if its presence bothers you its droppings are a mess or it s causing damage to your roof. The black vulture coragyps atratus and turkey vulture cathartes aura are also known as buzzards. According to the united states department of agriculture vultures have even. Turkey vultures find carrion using their sense of smell and excellent vision.

Black vultures often damage homes and commercial buildings by tearing window caulking roof shingles vent seals rubber roof liners and pool covers. Nbc 10 arrived at penta s house around 8 a m.