VULTURES TOUCHDOWN!

 Recently my Mom and I were sitting on her porch. Suddenly

we kept seeing shadows coming from the roof of the house.

We couldn't figure out what was causing this scene. 

Then two vultures swooped  near where we were sitting.

This action made us tremble in our chairs. We had never 

seen vultures that close before.  They landed on our

street.

 One of the vultures went in to the woods 

in front of the street. He pulled out a dead animal.

It looked like a cat.  We couldn't get a good look

at the animal because two vultures began fighting.

This was a disgusting sight because the animal was

 getting torn to pieces. Each vulture flew off with

a bloody piece. The sky became filled with other

vultures circulating over the woods.

My neighbor got up close to the vultures to take

pictures on her cell phone. She shot photos of the

vultures eating and fighting. I wouldn't think 

of doing this because those vultures may

have become angry.  Today, was proof

to me that vultures have a phenomenal

sense of smell.

I have read about "survivor of the fittest"

among animals. I never thought I would

witness a close encounter. Seeing predatory 

vultures in action was distasteful to me.

This experience caused me to ponder something.

Are vultures were mentioned in the Bible?

Here are the passages I discovered:

13.  "And these are they which ye shall have in abomination

 among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination:

 the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,"

14.   "And the vulture, and the kite after his kind;" 

 Leviticus 11:13, 14

12.   "But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, 

and the ossifrage, and the ospray," 

"13.  And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind," 

Deuteronomy 14: 12, 13 

"There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's

 eye hath not seen:" 

Job 28:7 

"There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, 

and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be 

gathered, every one with her mate." 

Isaiah 34:15 

NOTE:

Photos quality poor: porch view

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