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Post by Tooln on May 5, 2019 12:31:15 GMT -6
Anyone have them around their place? I've been seeing a few hanging around mine. Damm they are big & ugly.
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Post by wiscwhip on May 5, 2019 12:40:29 GMT -6
They are everywhere here in bluff country. They are circling out our picture window daily taking advantage of all the natural up drafts to ride the wind.
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Post by Tooln on May 5, 2019 12:42:13 GMT -6
They are everywhere here in bluff country. They are circling out our picture window daily taking advantage of all the natural up drafts to ride the wind. I've seen a lot of eagles when we are in the LaCrosse/PDC area but never turkey buzzards.
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Post by MoBuckChaser on May 5, 2019 13:14:38 GMT -6
I hate them fuckers. They tear up the roofs on our box blinds. And if you leave a window open the roost in them and shit all over. They usually leave when they hear my 4 wheeler start up. They know bullets fly if it comes around.
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Post by kabic on May 5, 2019 14:02:29 GMT -6
Saw a fee over in Jackson county when i was driving.
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Post by Tooln on May 5, 2019 15:18:43 GMT -6
I hate them fuckers. They tear up the roofs on our box blinds. And if you leave a window open the roost in them and shit all over. They usually leave when they hear my 4 wheeler start up. They know bullets fly if it comes around. I've had them perching in a tree at the edge of my plot. Fuckers are federally protected. I'm afraid they may swoop down at fawns. SSS
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Post by Bwoods11 on May 5, 2019 15:22:29 GMT -6
Yes they are all over!!
Really bad in Iowa, we saw around 15 one day!
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Post by Catscratch on May 5, 2019 19:27:15 GMT -6
I like the things. Always a little sad when they migrate out, and a little happy when they migrate back. They catch thermals right in front of our deck and hover just in front of the house. Pretty cool bird.
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Post by badbrad on May 6, 2019 6:24:35 GMT -6
We have plenty of them as well.
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Post by chummer16 on May 6, 2019 8:32:06 GMT -6
We have had a pair nest in an abandon camp next to us for the last ten years. Two babies every year. They sun themselves on the roof everyday until they can fly. I don’t think they would eat a live fawn but I know bald eagles do and we have a bunch of those around.
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Post by Catscratch on May 6, 2019 8:51:39 GMT -6
I think it's the Black Vulture that is known to kill live animals. I've never heard or seen a Turkey Buzzard messing with live critters.
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Post by Foggy on May 6, 2019 9:06:27 GMT -6
Big flock of turkey vultures down near New Ulm where I used to live. They would roost in the big TV tower by the golf course when they first started hanging there. Then they would roost in the tops of dead trees and such. I hated those big ugly birds. I did not like them roosting near my home. Allegedly.....I was able to kill a couple with my air rifle. (or were they crows? - yeah that's it crows. grin).
Seems they are everywhere now. Just like eagles.....they are becoming more numerous each year. I predict we will have too many large raptors in the time to come.
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Post by Tooln on May 6, 2019 14:12:20 GMT -6
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Post by jbird on May 6, 2019 14:42:56 GMT -6
We got them all over here. I got 2 dogs that chase them! If they are low enough to put a shadow on the ground 2 of our dogs just go nuts. Dumb-asses run around looking up in the sky and run into shit all the time. I guess we got a "no fly zone" over our place!
They are actually pretty dangerous here because they are not afraid of people or vehicles much. They will be eating some road kill and they are pretty slow to get in the air and folks hit them with their cars and the like all the time! They been busy lately here because the does are looking for fawning cover and getting hit....
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Post by Sandbur on May 6, 2019 18:07:23 GMT -6
I remember a story about Ben Franklin wanted to make the wild turkey our national bird. He described them to someone on the west side of the Appalachians as a big dark bird with red on the head and they taste great. The guy from west of the Apps said they have them, too, and they taste like shit... he was talking about the vulture.
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