Scavengers' Buffet

Yesterday I visited the compost facility where Justin works, turning garbage from Asheville's finest restaurant into high grade dirt.

It's not pretty and even in twenty degree weather there was a certain odor . . .

But it's a noble endeavor and a good job for a philosophy major. 
What had me open-mouthed in awe though were the birds -- masses of them. Black vultures and crows were what I mainly saw, along with some smaller birds. 
Justin has seen ravens and the occasional bald eagle at this all-you-can eat buffet for scavengers.

It was too cold to linger but I kept taking pictures . . .