kettling

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castillon02 https://castillon02.tumblr.com/ said:

                   turkey vultures!!! I love seeing them in their

gossip gangs; I didn’t know they were called ‘kettles’!

ah the “kettle” isn’t just when they’re hanging out, it’s specifically a thing they do– it’s a verb, but you noun it when it’s them doing it– it’s when they do that thing where they ride a thermal up in like a spiral? so it’s just this massive Vulture Vortex kind of thing, it looks amazing.

ah more here: http://www.kern.audubon.org/tvfacts.htm

There’s a bit where the Mohawk bends between two shoulders of a busted-up mountain bit, where the river broke thru in like glaciers times, and it’s called Big Nose and Little Nose, and I love it and I am just– filled with this certainty that it must have been a sacred site or just a crucial part of a living landscape, I don’t know– I haven’t been able to come up with anything in the cursory research I’ve done so I’m like 99% sure it was Haudenosaunee land (the Iroquois Six Nations) but I don’t know which kind, my apologies– but just from what little I know there’s no way this wasn’t a big landmark and important site, and I am always filled with awe as I pass it, and to add to that there’s so often a vulture kettle nearby, just a little further along–

I know the landscape is heavily changed in recent years, there’s very clearly a spot where a landfill was put in a few decades ago, but I’m always filled with this kind of awe as I go by it, I love that spot and despite having done occasional Internet research dives on it I’ve never really learned anything about its specific history. I got a page on its geologic histoy but not its history with humans, I just don’t know. I just always am super aware of it whenever I pass by. (Your picture was not posted)