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Old Feb 16, 2009 | 09:37 AM
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Originally Posted by bmuhlbach
The Buzzards are due back March 15 Thats a Sunday so there will be a feast of pancakes and sauage and stuff for sale at the Elemantary School.Its pretty educational sometimes a buzzard has a 4-5 foot wing span and weighs 5 lbs. thats way they glide through the air cause there not strong fliers and they eat dead stuff because there beeks are weak to catch and rip open live stuff they do eat mice and small stuff too.
Here in SE ohio we have a lot of coal fired power plants that have enormous stacks and a produce great thermal drafts. The Buzzards love these places. They roost on the catwalks on the stacks and cooling towers. The sides of the stacks are litterally covered with buzzard crap. I think one reason they hang around is the fact that the plants engage in constant pidgeon eradication with some kind of poison. the pidgeons are a big problem. the get stuck on the intake screens on the big ID fans and eventually clog it up thus reducing combustion air intake. It would probably be better to take off the screens and just let the birds go in but there is a safety hazzard there because those things are powerful enough to suck in people. I think the buzzards also like having the thermals to use for lift. As you said, they don't fly to well because of their weight. I have seen them come off the stacks in the morning and use the thermals to glide for hours. If they have a shutdown the buzzards leave.

Later Man...
 
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