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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I think it’s just a spring thing.
Time to hire a better cook don't you think? ;-)
I’m the cook. A very good one too.
Now there is another dead deer in the field. The more vultures the better and the sooner the better - because cleaning dead deer dog puke of the carpet is no fun at all.
Doesn't say much for the dog food you have been offer the poor dog. ;-)
Buzzard’s Luck:
Can’t kill nothin’
Nothin’ won’t die.
Cristy was visiting and was said to be feeling poorly. Yummy. Go vultures!
Came to the edge of a cornfield in NJ and stopped short to watch three big vultures picking away at a woodchuck or something. Suddenly they all hopped about 10 feet away like prize-fighters to their corners. I thought I had spooked them.
Then down came this little hawk to take a bite, and then he flew back to the top of the telephone pole nearby where he had gone unnoticed by me. And the vultures moved back in. A minute later they all hopped back to their corners as the little guy came back in for more.
This continued until I got bored and left. It was really amazing to see those huge vultures (5 to 6 foot wing-span compared to the little hawk’s 15-inches ?) do their quick-step as soon as the hawk lifted his wings to glide down. He barely gave them a look either.
Vultures, bullies and politicians are all alike... weak cowards.
The little hawk has valor.
vultures (working in concert)caught killin calves in Texas.
Workers servicing
cell towers hate it when they use it as a roost.
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