This is the hummie migration map, I like the best.
Anxiously waiting for my little bombers
Posted on 01/30/2017 5:42:01 AM PST by bert
Welcome to winter in the upper south. Too far north not to get at least some winter, too far south for it to stick around long. It confuses the plants and animals at times. Those crocuses have blossomed far too early, enjoy them while you can. Snow would insulate and protect them. Frost or hard freeze will do them in. Some of the prettiest weather we get all year happens in the dead of winter, highs in the 70’s and 80’s with low humidity and not a cloud, but good luck predicting when that might occur. Some of the wildest winter weather we’ve ever had, and some of the largest snow accumulations we’ve ever had, have happened in March. Then, there are the years with no snow. It’s always interesting, winter here.
You are correct except they are very sensitive to the weather changes. The buzzards in question can fly great distances for a little comfort. They are all black vultures.
For perhaps ten years or so, they have decided to come here in great numbers, in my neighborhood when the weather gets bad to the north. They know when it is coming and come visit here a day or two before the bad weather. The sheer numbers circling for very wide areas over several miles, are a sight to behold.
They settle in the big oak trees that are in the old fence rows about 4:30 or 5:oo in the evenings where they overnight. .
Buzzards congregating in very large numbers is a fairly recent phenomenon here in my part of NC. Sort of eerie looking to me. Never saw such a thing until the past decade or so. I was born here, entering my fifth decade now.
This is the hummie migration map, I like the best.
Anxiously waiting for my little bombers
They do like the color red, don’t they? For those who don’t have any, set out the welcome mat and they’ll discover you, then come back year after year. They know where they’re loved.
I’m from Townsend, TN and I have seen buzzards around here all my life...They have always been around farming communities....
I’m not talking about just buzzards. We have them everywhere in East Tennessee. I’m talking about lots and lots and lots of buzzards. I’m talking about the sky being full of them .I’m talking about a single big oak tree with twenty or so come to roost for a night.
They are weather related. They move in here for a few days to escape bad weather to the north. They might stay a week before moving on.
Ditto here in Lenoir City. Crocuses (croci?) are coming up and the crepe myrtle is budding. Birds are confused.
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