May 13, 2018
STUART-Brenda Bowman figures her
granddaughter’s got a leg up on her: 11-year-old Kylee Tyson is seeing
something her grandmother is only seeing at the age of 63.
It was an albino turkey vulture,
something even an expert has only heard about three times.
They saw it on April 29, when “my
granddaughter and I went out to take an evening stroll. Kylee is the one who
spotted it,” Bowman said. They live in Patrick County between Stuart and the
state line.
“There were other vultures after
it — 10 to 14. I think they were trying to kill it,” she said.
The large white bird “circled
around and landed on the tractor shed. It was pretty smart,” she said. “It walked
along the tractor roof and hid itself under a tree from the other vultures.”
She got her binoculars to get a
closer look at what she had thought was a hawk. She saw it looked like a
vulture.
She and Kylee “waited a while,
then we walked on toward the tractor shed, trying to scare the black vultures
off.”
The white vulture flew away after
the black ones had left, she said. It flew to the back of her property toward a
creek.
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