Hey, did you know that it will soon be Vulture Awareness Day? Yes on Sept. 5th, vultures everywhere will finally get the respect they truly deserve, the hell with fancy sparrows and coastal water birds....carcass cuisine loving birds are a great part of our ecosystems...so you may ask....well what do I do on Sept. 5th to show my love of these bald beauties (though not all are bald...they must have joined the hair club)...well let me tell you!

You can practice hurling throw-up...as is a skill mastered by these creatures...as I have encountered with my friend Ralph the turkey vulture.

You can shave your hair...this maybe an extreme act...I do not plan on this.

Trace your arms on sidewalk and compare it to the wingspan of the Condor which is 10 feet.

You can write poetry about vultures...below is a great poem from Louis Untermeyer, ed. (1885–1977). Modern American Poetry. 1919.

ALOOF upon the day's immeasured dome,
He holds unshared the silence of the sky.
Far down his bleak, relentless eyes descry
The eagle's empire and the falcon's home—
Far down, the galleons of sunset roam;	5
His hazards on the sea of morning lie;
Serene, he hears the broken tempest sigh
Where cold sierras gleam like scattered foam.
And least of all he holds the human swarm—
Unwitting now that envious men prepare	10
To make their dream and its fulfillment one,
When, poised above the caldrons of the storm,
Their hearts, contemptuous of death, shall dare
His roads between the thunder and the sun.

So there, become aware of the vultures stare, though is head is bare...he is a great in the air and without him we would surely not be there..