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By: Eat Our Brains » Blog Archive » Apologies For Not Updating

Eat Our Brains » Blog Archive » Apologies For Not Updating — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:55:33 +0000

[...] Check it out. Especially the Vultures. [...]

By: Eat Our Brains » Blog Archive » I Got Your “Best Of” Right Here

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 05:14:54 +0000

[...] Best Place to See a Deer Carcass Stripped Down to the Spine by Buzzards: The ditch along Bliss Spillar Road, about two hundred yards west of the Dark Tower. [...]

By: Elizabeth Patterson

Elizabeth Patterson — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:10:16 +0000

I was told they will take down a full grown cow and remove the eyes, then start on the other end until the animal dies. Now there are four black headed buzzards roosting by my barn, evidently eyeing my llama and two tiny goats! We are all afraid.

By: eat our brains » Blog Archive » Paradise, Parking Lots, and the Dark Tower

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 01:46:53 +0000

[...] Five weeks ago, workmen climbed the cell phone tower described in my post of November 16 (“Childe Buzzard to the Dark Tower Came”) to install additional gigantic cables and metallic doohickeys. And ever since they did that, the hundreds of buzzards who used to roost on the tower every night have refused to return. [...]

By: eat our brains » Blog Archive » Do You Know Where Your Children Are?

eat our brains » Blog Archive » Do You Know Where Your Children Are? — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 21:28:34 +0000

[...] To quote Bradley from his Buzzards post, “They’re beautiful when they fly.” [...]

By: Sara

Sara — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 20:03:44 +0000

We have a picture taken in Brad’s back yard of Andrew lounging, talking on the cell phone, with 3 vultures in the tree watching. He’s the one who should look alive!

By: Naik’s News » Buzzards take over cell phone tower

Naik’s News » Buzzards take over cell phone tower — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 06:01:51 +0000

[...] Link [...]

By: ziplinelover

ziplinelover — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 22:37:01 +0000

Turkey Vultures, TV for short.

“Buzzard is the correct term for a family of hawks. (ie the European buzzard, Buteo buteo, closely related to the American red tailed hawk). In America, the term is often employed incorrectly to describe vultures. This probably dates back to the arrival of the first English colonists. There are no vultures of any type in England, so these pioneers probably gave the common term ‘buzzard’ to all the soaring figures above the New World.”
http://vulturesociety.homestead.com/TVFacts.html

You ain’t seen nothin’ till you see how the roosting TVs in Palmetto SP.

By: Steven Gould

Steven Gould — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 22:14:30 +0000

First they're on your cell tower the next thing you know, they're in your school!

By: Connie H.

Connie H. — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 22:32:20 +0000

Buzzards do hunt by sight but they are one of the rare bird species with a sensitive sense of smell, so more often they are sniffing out their stinky dead food from many miles away

By: Mike Dub Wainwright

Mike Dub Wainwright — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 20:21:33 +0000

They’ve taken over another tower near my friend’s new house, not far from where you are. It’s just off of 290 and Springdale, in a brand new subdivision. There were over 50 on the tower, not 100 feet from his backyard.

What’s up with all the buzzards in Austin? They seem to be massing and congregating…. perhaps to plot against the bats.

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 15:03:50 +0000

Ominous… Reminds me of the crows amassing in The Sandman.

By: doug

doug — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 13:39:55 +0000

I wonder if these marvelous, though visually jarring, birds would be suitable for use in the age-old funerary rite of sky burial. The reverence afforded their vulture cousins in ancient Egypt and even today in Southern Asia is well deserved. Evidently the native species there has all but disappeared due to some environmental assault. Were sky burial an option here I’d seriously consider it for myself when that inevitable time arrives; happy to know that my bones, neatly stored away in a nicely appointed crypt, might serve as a reminder of life’s unavoidable consequences.

By: moeraki boulders wallpaper, desktopography, then the buzzards came « inkbluesky

Tue, 21 Nov 2006 08:28:34 +0000

[...] Childe Buzzard to the Dark Tower Came You see, our cell-phone tower is now the permanent nighttime home of over a hundred black-headed buzzards. Big, ugly buzzards. The kind you see playing tug-of-war with whole deer carcasses. [...]

By: Patty P

Patty P — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 05:31:43 +0000

Don’t go near the bottom of the tower without noseplugs! The droppings stink horribly since they eat carrion. I’ve been near a buzzard roost. Once was enough!

When they fly high and circle over carrion, they are alerting their roost mates that food lays below. They can see at least 30 miles, and the others will converge.

Patty P