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["lyneart" <lyneart@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

While moving hay rolls, one of the rolls was lopsided and I was unable to 
penetrate it with the hay fork. I got a chunk of dead wood from the nearby 
woods and attempted to use this to level up the hay roll enough so the fork 
would jab straight in. After several tries I finally got that roll moved. When 
I drove the tractor back over the hill for the next roll, 2 Turkey Vultures 
were sitting on the ground beside the chunk of dead wood. I drove over to the 
spot to ascertain that no dead animal had been concealed beneath the hay roll. 
There was none. Those vultures just mistook the chunk of dead wood for a dead 
animal. That doesn't seem to me to indicate that vultures have such acute 
vision.
Frank Lyne frank@xxxxxxxxxxx near Dot in Logan County, KY

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