Bird Identification: CLOSED: Anyone recognize these birds?, 1 by plantladylin

plantladylin wrote:
I was out in my backyard this morning and noticed these three birds circling (hunting) but can't figure out what they are. I took a couple of photo's but of course they were way up in the sky and all I have is a little digital camera but thought maybe someone would recognize the shape/size and have some ideas.

We get a lot of hawks at times and in spring time, swallow tailed kites but I can't figure out what these are. My first thought was some sort of vultures which we see eating road kill at times but they look too skinny to be vultures, LOL.

I am just real curious.