This year, the Turkey Vulture numbers seem down. We usually see more in our area.
I need to admit, we tried attracting Turkey Vultures a couple of times. Once with old meat, but a night time critter made off with it. Bummer. Try 2: Old meat, covered it at night, something dug under the metal tub. But the day before that, Turkey Vultures flew low over the yard, but inside noise freaked them out.
Try #3: This was more of an accident. I won't go into details, but our dog caught a rabbit, but didn't do the job. After my husband completed the deed, he threw it into the south pasture. This caused major drama after a few days.
Seven Turkey Vultures came to investigate, there was fighting between some of them. Nesting Grackles were not happy about their presence, so dived bombed the vultures. One foolish vulture landed on the Kestrel box and out came Mrs. Kestrel and clawed it on the back. Yes, these vultures can fly quickly when they need to. And a separate drama was occurring between two male Pheasants fighting over territory at the same time. Ah, I like birds.
Towns in the area have done things to remove Vultures.
I try to understand that from man's perspective, but they should do the right thing and that is to then create or allow them habitat elsewhere.
