RICHMOND, Va. — Three months after CBS 6 first reported on dead black vultures at Roslyn Landing Park in Colonial Heights, the problem persists. Scattered feathers and a trail of dead black vultures lined the park entrance in mid-October, mirroring the same scene from July when CBS 6 first brought community concerns to park officials and the Department of Wildlife Resources.
“I feel bad for the vultures, first of all, and any dead animal you want cleaned up, because it’s going to contaminate the ground,” park goer Dee Raglan said. “It’s going to contaminate other animals that eat it. You don’t know what it died of. It gets into our water system. And it’s not just this water. It connects to all the waters that you know, all the lakes and rivers. It’s all connected.”
These contamination concerns come days after a recent DWR report indicated federally protected birds of prey around Virginia have died from H5N1, a pathogenic avian flu…