Posted on 03/08/2013 12:16:00 PM PST by Uncle Chip
If vultures are a bad omen, one New Jersey town should brace for disaster.
More than 100 of the sinister black birds descended on Bridgewater this week, spooking residents.
But authorities are more concerned about the damage the vultures will do to the properties they're congregating near.
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Resident Tim Friar said he'd seen the birds gather in the same area before but never this many.
'I noticed them about two years ago and thought, now that's a big bird,' he told nj.com. 'Then I started to see an ungodly amount. It's just eerie.'
'Vultures like pine trees and evergreen trees because they still have the needles that offer protection from the elements,' Rein said. 'They typically nest later in the season but they don't build nests in trees, rather on the ground an in caves or abandoned barns.'
The residents believe the trees the vultures' were previously living in may have been knocked down in the storm, forcing them to find a new home in their neighborhood.
The birds can occasionally attack people or animals, though they feast on dead creatures rather than the living.
As creepy as it sounds, Rein said the best way to tackle a vulture invasion is to hang a dead vulture carcass, or effigy, upside-down from a tree with the wings spread in the area they're congregating.
'The vulture effigy is a visual deterrent to the birds for that season but they may come back in future seasons,' Rein told nj.com.
The affected Bridgewater residents were planning to chip in to pay for the effigy, which costs around $500 per carcass.
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Pics from last year in Hinckley Ohio
http://fox8.com/2012/03/15/pictures-2012-buzzard-day-in-hinckley/
If I had read all the posts on FR today, I could unequivocally say, that yours is the post of the day.
Don't know why that rhymed.
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So then these vultures might really be real estate agents???
Proud graduate of The Sam and Dean Winchester School of Pest Control.
They must smell the death of the Republican Party in Jersey..
Chris Christy is only a little more republican than Chris Matthews..
And Ann COulter must be trippin on some boadcious weeds..
Christy and Myth Romney don’t have that tingle up the leg kind of action..
Ann seems to be sucking on a very nasty Bong..
Locally, we have a large flock of buzzards (turkey vultures, actually) that hang out near one of the big snowbird retirement communities. I guess they figure it’s just a matter of time...
Could be. The two towns to the east of Bridgewater, Plainfield and South Plainfield are two urban dumps, low-rent to the core if you know what I mean. But to a Second-World society as Britian has become Bridgewater probably looks ‘’upmarket’’ to them.
When I was a teen we even made a semi professional 16mm film about Buzzard Day.
I think National Lampoon ripped us off with Groundhog day!!
And for the record Punxatawney is just across the border in PA.
You are right, Jersey has no imagination.
Yuppers.
You’re right. These vultures must not be too smart. If they’d just travel a few miles west into Hunterdon County, you usually can’t drive a mile without seeing a dead deer along the side of the road. Almost as plentiful would be if they headed a bit north towards northern Somerset or Morris counties.
The 2nd Amendment has been unconstitutionally suspended in NJ.
Oh, I thought you were talking about Lawyers!
For the union installed telephone pole? ;-)
That makes sense .
Perhaps Christy’s chickens have come home to roost!
It’s the funniest thing. A group of vultures has taken up residence on top of BP’s building and won’t go away. They crap all over the place and circle the building all day long.
As to how to get rid of them, there is a secret that usually works and I have used it on the farm successfully.
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