The Lammergeier always has been a mythical bird for me- ever since I encountered my first bird in Switzerland. Since then I have seen them in Spain, France and Armenia. While there are birds brought up in captivity and released in the wild, the bird I saw in Armenia surely was a wild one.
But all of this doesn't matter when they glide past you in the most stunning scenery imaginable. In early 2020 I had several close encounters with this individual, which passed me at a range closer than 10m while is was alone on the mountain ridge.