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‘It Was Pretty Scary’: Hordes Of Vultures Taking Over South Jersey Town
Philadelphia CBS ^ | March 8, 2019 | Cleve Bryan

Posted on 03/11/2019 5:43:44 PM PDT by RedMonqey

Menacing-looking vultures are taking over a town in South Jersey and residents want them to buzz off. Hordes of vultures have been hanging around in Mount Holly. Residents want them gone but not everybody feels that way as environmentalists say the vultures are an important part of the ecosystem.

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TOPICS: Humor; Local News; Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: birds; hoffa; mafia; newjersey; vultures
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To: TaMoDee

Yep. They’re like large turkeys.

And everytime they are startled or lift off, the lose their “payload”


21 posted on 03/11/2019 6:07:49 PM PDT by RedMonqey ("Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didn't.")
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To: RedMonqey

Vultures don’t come in “hordes.” Sheesh.

Vultures come in kettles, committees or wakes
* “Kettle” refers to vultures in flight
* “Committee” refers to vultures resting on the ground or in trees
* “Wake” is a group of vultures that are feeding

How many other birds have THREE names for groups in various activities?

My favorite is a “squadron of pelicans.”

Actually, these vulture terms sound apropos for Democrats. They are always feeding on us; they are always flying off on junkets; and they are always resting.


22 posted on 03/11/2019 6:07:50 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: SkyDancer

We wish!


23 posted on 03/11/2019 6:08:31 PM PDT by RedMonqey ("Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didn't.")
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
"Vultures don’t come in “hordes.” Sheesh.”

Yep!

But we're not suppose to edit the headlines of stories we're posting here.
24 posted on 03/11/2019 6:10:50 PM PDT by RedMonqey ("Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didn't.")
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To: RedMonqey

This whole area has always had lots of turkey vultures, at least as long as I’ve been here. (Not to mention wild turkeys, too.)


25 posted on 03/11/2019 6:14:33 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: RedMonqey

You wouldn’t need to hit any of them.
They’d leave.


26 posted on 03/11/2019 6:14:57 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

I shot and killed a squirrel last week, out behind my house in a field. A couple of days later, there were at least 10 buzzards flying around the carcass- and one eating it.


27 posted on 03/11/2019 6:18:32 PM PDT by matthew fuller (Some people are deserving of the death penalty.)
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To: RedMonqey

Very sociable birds that love to hang out together while preforming a needed service of keeping things free of diseased carrion.


28 posted on 03/11/2019 6:23:53 PM PDT by JPG (MAGA!)
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To: RedMonqey
environmentalists say the vultures are an important part of the ecosystem

"Buzzards gotta eat, same as worms" - Josey Wales

29 posted on 03/11/2019 6:25:50 PM PDT by NurdlyPeon (It is the nature of liberals to pervert whatever they touch.)
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To: RedMonqey
Menacing-looking vultures...

Menacing vultures?

On my street, I saw five vultures surround a dead rabbit. As they stood there looking at each other, along came a single crow who swooped in and grabbed the carcas. The vultures did absolutely nothing to stop the crow.

Dumb wimpy vultures.

30 posted on 03/11/2019 6:39:27 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: RedMonqey
Your average adult buzzard weighs about four pounds. How frightening are we supposed to believe they could be?

And FWIW, the buzzards come to Hinkley, Ohio en masse about this time ever year (the same day the swallows com back to Capistrano).

31 posted on 03/11/2019 6:39:59 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: RedMonqey

There’s about a 2-3 acre grove of trees on the grounds of my workplace. As it was getting dark one evening, I saw about 200 vultures circling the grove and landing. There’s a loop drive through the grove, and everything was covered in buzzard poop!


32 posted on 03/11/2019 6:41:18 PM PDT by mozarky2 (Ya never stand so tall as when ya stoop to stomp a statist...)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“Committee” refers to vultures resting on the ground or in trees”

Or in a Congressional Hearing.

L


33 posted on 03/11/2019 6:42:10 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending it is.)
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To: FreeReign

The vultures are republicans and the crow is the democrat.

That was easy.


34 posted on 03/11/2019 6:50:15 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Pearls Before Swine
So, what are they eating? If there isn’t a lot of carrion around”


Roadkill? Retirement home overbooking? Government cheese?

(Snicker, snicker)
35 posted on 03/11/2019 6:50:57 PM PDT by RedMonqey ("Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didn't.")
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To: grey_whiskers

Yr meme Crows and Vultures....


36 posted on 03/11/2019 6:51:44 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: RedMonqey

Vulture Fun Facts


37 posted on 03/11/2019 6:54:22 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Shotguns. My first thought, too. If they’re anti-gun libs, then every day at noon and five pm, everyone honk their horns on their little electric cars.


38 posted on 03/11/2019 6:54:35 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.)
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To: FreeReign


"Menacing vultures?”


We're talking about 'suburbanites".

To them, even a rabbit is "menacing' to them. We're lucky they are not calling 911 every hour, on the hour.

I would think New Yorkers would shrug their shoulders and say "I've seen bigger rats than that in my neighborhood"
39 posted on 03/11/2019 6:56:32 PM PDT by RedMonqey ("Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didn't.")
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To: RedMonqey

This is nothing even close to liberal vultures taking over towns in South Carolina.


40 posted on 03/11/2019 7:00:44 PM PDT by ladyjane
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