My mind ponders a new question - not smoking related

Caneyscud · January 12, 2011, 05:35:01 AM

Driving to work yesterday, going past some of the wealthiest neighborhood around, I encountered a pack of coyotes going across the 4-lane road through people's yards. Sent a shiver down my spine as I had encountered lone coyotes here but never a pack. The city should do something, but I imagine they'll wait until something really bad happens. Then a few blocks further, a beautiful red-tail was alit on a church sign. My mind was thinking predators (and not just because I had a Nashville Predator Hockey game to go to that night) (BTW they creamed The Wild 5-1 woo-hoo). After setting this up time to get to the question. Here's the question of the day!

Where do buzzards/vultures go in the snow?

I can't say I ever remember seeing any buzzards/vultures active while snow is on the ground. They were around a couple of days ago before the snow! May just be bad memory - but I was just wondering.

jiggerjams · January 12, 2011, 06:24:25 AM

That is a good question Caney. I don't know but it does remind me that the mother in law hasn't called in a while.

tsquared · January 12, 2011, 06:29:02 AM

Here on Vancouver Island they come down to my area (southern tip) in the fall and wait for a warm fall afternoon to catch an updraft to ride across Juan de fuca strait to the Olympic peninsula in Washington state. They then head for mexico for the winter. Apparently some of the elderly vultures get to old to make the trip and just stay and winter here. Kind of like retired folks--they head south every winter until they reach a certain age and then just hunker down at home for the winter! :D
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Ka Honu · January 12, 2011, 08:15:25 AM

Quote from: Caneyscud on January 12, 2011, 05:35:01 AMWhere do buzzards/vultures go in the snow?

Can you say, "migration?"

GusRobin · January 12, 2011, 08:25:22 AM

Quote from: Caneyscud on January 12, 2011, 05:35:01 AM
Where do buzzards/vultures go in the snow?

Don't know where all of them go but my in-laws go to California.

TMB · January 12, 2011, 08:26:38 AM

Quote from: GusRobin on January 12, 2011, 08:25:22 AM
Quote from: Caneyscud on January 12, 2011, 05:35:01 AM
Where do buzzards/vultures go in the snow?

Don't know where all of them go but my in-laws go to California.

LOL!! Mine live down the street.. :-X :-X :-X

Sailor · January 12, 2011, 08:36:48 AM

I think South Florida get them all in the winter. They drive cars and you can only see a white cotton head and they drive slow and screw up everything. OHHHHHH I guess I was thinking of Snow Birds. D'oh.

Caneyscud · January 13, 2011, 06:29:59 AM

Quote from: Ka Honu on January 12, 2011, 08:15:25 AM
Quote from: Caneyscud on January 12, 2011, 05:35:01 AMWhere do buzzards/vultures go in the snow?

Can you say, "migration?"

Maybe some, but not all. I had a lunch with some Friends yesterday in "The Gulch" - just off downtown. Getting off I-65 or is it I-40 - I can't remember, they changed the numbering a couple of years ago. There were a couple of Black Vultures dining on something at the curb. So they are around. Just never see them in or around the snow.

Ka Honu · January 13, 2011, 07:29:34 AM

Quote from: Caneyscud on January 13, 2011, 06:29:59 AMJust never see them in or around the snow.

Must mean they are (like turtles) smarter than people.