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The Buzzards

ByEvelyn Osborn Hours Posted on Hours Updated on
When we visit our land in Abilene, Texas, we always pass this deserted farmhouse and I notice it seems to be a hang out for some unsavorily characters.  On our recent trip, I decided it needed further investigation so we stopped and I grabbed my camera and zeroed in on these bad boys!

 

I was right!! 
 Roof Top Buzzards aka Turkey Vultures! 
 
 
 
I do believe this is the Buzzard Leader or is he the Buzzard King! 
Do Buzzards have leaders or kings? 
But he just has to be in charge since he had the place of honor, the throne, aka the chimney.
 
 
 

Not sure if these guys were posing for me or if they were trying to scare me away.   But slowly one at a time they extended their wings and just froze in that position!  Except the King (or leader), he just surveyed his domain and appeared bored.   I know that a group of buzzards is often called a “committee” so maybe they were conducting a special secret “committee” meeting which I ungraciously interrupted.    I quickly made my apologies and left so they could…. (do whatever buzzards do sitting on a farm house roof). 
 This brings to mind that part in Jungle Book with the four Buzzards sitting on a tree branch and asking in their Liverpool accents “What you wonna do?” “I don’t know, what you wonna do?”

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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  2. Omgoodness I LOVE buzzards! They are so Halloween-ish! You really captured some lovely pictures. This looks like a setting for a mystery novel!

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  11. Stopping by from Thumping Thursday blog hop.

    Those are great pictures.

    I just saw one down the street from me – eating a dead possum – lol

    I forgot about the Jungle book buzzards.

    Thanks for sharing 🙂

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  17. Yikes! There is an abandoned, falling in house at the end of my road and the buzzards hang out on top of it too. How do they know to only hang out on that type of house? Maybe they learned it in a committee meeting. I'm just glad the stay there and not at my house!

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  18. Yes, I do see the similarities! On the way to our mountain, we drive past an old dead tree that is always filled with them. It looks like something from a horror movie. I have seen them fly over our fields and they are quite large and intimidating with their wings span of 6 feet or more. I keep one eye out for them whenever we bring our 3 little dogs outside for their walks. They are jut small enough, that they may look like a mid morning snack to those flying buzzards!

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