A feast of vultures

This column is about vultures, so if you are eating breakfast or the thought of these dedicated carrion feeders makes you squeamish, pass this column by.

- BY PETE DUNNE

While some find the birds loathsome, I consider Turkey Vulture handsome with their cadmium-colored heads, horn-colored bills and somber eyes. Katie Fallon, who just wrote a wonderful tribute to the birds, likens the contemplation of flying vultures to Zen. I quite agree. Moving through the air with the grace of thistle down, there are few birds that can match the aerial finesse of these condor-like birds, which, any day now, will come wobbling over the horizon, one of Maine's earliest harbingers of spring.