This^^^^is hilarious. Would’ve made a hell of a vid:smiley:!
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Originally posted by specAbout a half-century ago, I was in the Savannah River swamp with my trusty .410. I looked straight up and saw a “roost tree” full of buzzards, and not knowing the law, or thinking about the consequences, I aimed up amongst them, thinking: “I can’t miss”. About 100 buzzards looked down at me and said: “We can’t miss!” I missed. They didn’t!
spec
Hahahahahahhaha that’s rich
Yea most birds **** when they take off. Lightens the load and give some jet propulsion.
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I saw a black Vulture get hit by a car , it was still alive so I was going to do the right thing and take it to the raptor center. I put it in the backseat floorboard and covered it with a towel so it would not get upset,. Well the (() thing puked all over the floor. I don’t think I can describe how horrible vulture vomit smells ! Now I had my whole family in the car and we were literally driving down the road with our heads out the window, I was gagging the whole way. I decided to stop at my mom and dads house to clean up the mess and when we open the door the (() bird flew away. Don’t ever put a vulture in your car!
Oh yeah light firecrackers under the tree right at dusk and scare the roosting birds before they settle problem solved
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PROUD YANKEE
Oyster Baron
NMFS = No More Fishing Season
“Back home we got a taxidermy man. He gonna have a heart attack when he see what I brung him”
hahahaha this is my favorite thread. I’ve attempted to save a lot of animals but I don’t think I would ever consider putting a vulture in a car. Even the bed of a truck is a stretch.
I would probably rather rescue a skunk.
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I would probably rather rescue a skunk
I’m sure of it!
Capt. Larry Teuton
Swamp Worshiper
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Originally posted by sellsfishI saw a black Vulture get hit by a car , it was still alive so I was going to do the right thing and take it to the raptor center. I put it in the backseat floorboard and covered it with a towel so it would not get upset,. Well the (() thing puked all over the floor. I don’t think I can describe how horrible vulture vomit smells ! Now I had my whole family in the car and we were literally driving down the road with our heads out the window, I was gagging the whole way. I decided to stop at my mom and dads house to clean up the mess and when we open the door the (() bird flew away. Don’t ever put a vulture in your car!
Oh yeah light firecrackers under the tree right at dusk and scare the roosting birds before they settle problem solved
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PROUD YANKEEOyster Baron
NMFS = No More Fishing Season
“Back home we got a taxidermy man. He gonna have a heart attack when he see what I brung him”
\Did the stink wash out of the car? I’d have given two nickles to see that! I was always told it was a defense mechanism of a buzzard to puke like that.
AW, the poor thing was probably car sick:smiley:
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Originally posted by EasyAW, the poor thing was probably car sick:smiley:
Can anyone explain why they’re protected? They are EVERYWHERE. The town I live in has a Mexican restaurant with some really smelly dumpsters and across the road is cell tower. At any given time there is at least 100 of those suckers on the tower. A nesting family of them literally tore a piece of tin roof off of old house on family land to make their nest in the attic. The “rent” was bit too “heavy” and they moved on though .
You gonna talk or FISH!
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Can anyone explain why they're protected?
Federal Gubmint…Nuf Sed.
“Apathy is the Glove into Which Evil Slips It’s Hand”, but really, who cares?
They clean up all the dead **** that’s why they’re protected
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PROUD YANKEE
Oyster Baron
NMFS = No More Fishing Season
“Back home we got a taxidermy man. He gonna have a heart attack when he see what I brung him”
I know a USDA-WS officer and he will often hang a dead buzzard near a roost to get them to leave. Not sure how you get your hands on a dead one if they have so much protection. Maybe CL could find a dead one and stick it in the mail–
I’m also not sure if having a Fed hang a dead rotting buzzard in your front yard could be looked at as some kind of great tax payer benefit!
ZX
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Maybe CL could find a dead one and stick it in the mail--
Send me your address and I’ll mail you a road kill. The USPS would love that
On second thought, no, even I wouldn’t mail a dead buzzard.
Capt. Larry Teuton
Swamp Worshiper
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Originally posted by tanksgtI know a USDA-WS officer and he will often hang a dead buzzard near a roost to get them to leave. Not sure how you get your hands on a dead one if they have so much protection. Maybe CL could find a dead one and stick it in the mail–
I’m also not sure if having a Fed hang a dead rotting buzzard in your front yard could be looked at as some kind of great tax payer benefit!
ZX
Hanging a dead buzzard will not work to detoure other buzzards.
I think bottle rockets and roman candles sounds like the best idea.
I can see the contraption now…100 pieces of pvc on spikes aimed at the tree in a perfect circle, 200-300 bottle rockets placed in the launchers all tied to one long fuse…
…you light the fuse and by 2’s or 3’s, the rockets fire into the tree. Bang-bang…bang-bang.
“I am constantly amazed at the stupidity of the general public.”
~my dad
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1 - 17 year old (fishing maniac)
1 - wife (The Warden)
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200-300 bottle rockets placed in the launchers all tied to one long fuse....
I can’t even imagine the disgusting amount of puke and poop they would leave behind after that barrage! It would take a month before you could go in the yard again.
Capt. Larry Teuton
Swamp Worshiper
There is a public landing on Lake Greenwood that the birds hang out at, they roost on cars and trucks! My buddy got a new chevey silverado last week and on the first trip to the lake the buzzards ate all the rubber from around his bed cap! The DNR said we might get a permit to kill only 1, that wont do any good. After talking to them the have been a lot of trucks and cars dammaged. The old name of the lake is Buzzards roost!
A dead buzzard is hanging right now at my Ex DIL sub division.It works.The birds were pulling the roofs apart on some houses.
Stonoman
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Originally posted by stonomanA dead buzzard is hanging right now at my Ex DIL sub division.It works.The birds were pulling the roofs apart on some houses.
Stonoman
The one’s that I saw hung up got eaten by other buzzards. It works for crows and blackbirds. but never once saw it work for a buzzard. Not to be rude Mr. Stonoman, but I’d guess it was something other than a dead one of their own.
Tell all your neighbors take their kids and pets inside for an hour and see how those sensitive noses like a dose of bear spray.
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