What makes Fort Collins one of the most underrated cities in the west?
Turkey Vultures ?
Fellow blogger Cat (see Bismarck Stories) cued me in about the turkey vultures that roost near Mountain and Washington streets in Fort Collins. Famous cities like San Francisco and Chicago’s Hyde Park park have their parrots; why shouldn’t we have some too?
Harold and Dick and the Famous 91 year old Fort Collins Trolley #21
The Fort Collins Trolley runs along Mountain Street and it crosses the area of the infamous turkey vultures. I asked Harold and Dick about the vultures and they didn’t know what I was talking about! (I thought for sure these guys would be able to point out the vultures for the delight of passengers as they had to have crossed that area thousands of times!) But they do exist and have been blogged about in the past, so I wanted to make sure our fellow FCMRR conductors and motorman knew about them. I talked to some of the passengers on the trolley and found a few who know about the vultures but seemed to think that they were no longer in the area “because they couldn’t smell them.” Oh, but they ARE there!
Turkey Vultures!
I got out of the trolley and saw them flying around and I took a few pictures. OK, not as pleasant as parrots, but still much underrated. Life.com (as in LIFE magazine) voted FoCo one of the most underrated cities in the west. What, are they nuts?