On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 05:52:20 -0500, thunder
wrote:

On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:56:36 -0400, Tom Francis - SWSports wrote:

In thirty years, I have never seen this happen before.

http://www.swsports.org/images/Pictu...zzards%20I.jpg

http://www.swsports.org/images/Pictu...zards%20II.jpg

Nine black buzzards on the main house and another six on the guest house
and an additional eleven in the trees - that picture didn't come out
that well.

26 black buzzards in one place at the same time.

Must be global warming. :)

While I've never seen them on my house, it's not that unusual to see them
roosting together, especially at this time of year. They are gregarious
when roosting, and are starting their southern migration. They look like
Turkey Vultures, but there is a slight chance they are Black Vultures.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey_Vulture

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Black_Vulture

I wasn't sure myself to be totally honest, but I looked at my field
guide.

Definetly a black vulture. I called the orthano...oritha....orathe...
the bird dude at the local Audubon Society and sent him the pictures -
black vultures. He was surprized to seem that many of them this far
north of New Jersey - normally, according to him anyway, you seldom
see them north of Long Island Sound - almost always in ones and twos.

Under learn something new everyday, I found out that they are active
hunters for small game, birds and such. Didn't know that.