“We nearly ran down a 3 ft tall buzzard of some sort who was dragging a cat’s dead body off the road.”
3 ft tall?? The only ones that big I know of are California Condors. Mebbe you meant 3 foot wing span?
JC
The biggest tribe of the most common species in the Eastern US can be an average of 32 inches tall ~ and some members can be even bigger.
I gauged him with the height of my car at different points.
We've had a great deal of major construction in this area the last 3 or 4 years so a young'n would have plenty to eat.