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When I work in my vegetable garden in late morning 6n cloudiest summer days, a great shadow often passes over the yard. It is cast by a vulture passing between me and the sun. I look up and admire the smooth grace of this great bird that floats by pn motionless wings.
A different view of vultures presented itself at dusk on a fecent late February visit to friends who live at the Foxcroft School near Middleburg. The darkening sky was full of the somber shape of vultures. They were coming in to roost in the grand old oaks on the campus. A vague sense of unease possesses many people when they see large numbers of black birds. These were big black birds. Had the sky been full of white birds — egrets, for example — the reaction would have been different. I admit I was intrigued by the vultures and thanked my host, Roger Gilmore, for providing the show. He gave me a bemused look.
“This happens every day now.” he said. “They came here after being run out of Leesburg.” Becky Gilmore, his
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