What's Up With Rhode Island?
I'm heading out to Rhode Island for a day next week for some birding related training. I thought I would check and see if there are any bird related stories going on. I found one about a Beagle Club that's in trouble for getting rid of raptors on their property that were supposedly eating the rabbits that were meant for the beagles (getting rid being the use of poisons, guns and leg-hold traps).
The other story was about a family that is being "forced" to leave Rhode Island and move to Montana because of roosting vultures (because, you know, they have so few vultures in Montana). You can watch a video of the man who comes off as a big whiny-pants at CNN. I really do try to be understanding of people who don't know very much about birds, but really it's not hundreds of roosting vultures, it's dozens. He's the only one really complaining about them, the other neighbors don't really care (of course, it's not as much fun to give screen time to people who are reasonable). If you watch the CNN clip, you can see an old man at the end asking who would want to live in such a place, who would bring their family to that neighborhood...ME! Alas, Non Birding Bill is not moving to Rhode Island.
The other story was about a family that is being "forced" to leave Rhode Island and move to Montana because of roosting vultures (because, you know, they have so few vultures in Montana). You can watch a video of the man who comes off as a big whiny-pants at CNN. I really do try to be understanding of people who don't know very much about birds, but really it's not hundreds of roosting vultures, it's dozens. He's the only one really complaining about them, the other neighbors don't really care (of course, it's not as much fun to give screen time to people who are reasonable). If you watch the CNN clip, you can see an old man at the end asking who would want to live in such a place, who would bring their family to that neighborhood...ME! Alas, Non Birding Bill is not moving to Rhode Island.
posted by birdchick at 7:47 AM
9 Comments:
Why don't they just sell it to a birder?
Jochen
I think Turkey Vultures are pretty freaking awesome, but I find it hard to believe that even they have the power to make a man not pay his mortgage. What were they doing, swooping down to steal his checkbook?
Also, how do you get salmonella and strep throat from wild birds? I don't want to sound like a schmuck, here, but what in the world was that family doing? Rolling in bird doots and not washing their hands? French kissing the vultures? I've heard of getting strep from the family dog, but a (non-pet) bird? How do you even get close enough?
Incidentally, there are between ten and twenty turkey vultures over my parents' house at any given time. I guess it's amazing that they haven't been tossed out on the street yet?
Hey- I can relate. Just last week a gang of turkey vultures stopped me from returning my overdue library books!
And they ate my kids' homework.
There is a spot like that in my section of our CBC circle. Vultures in trees, vultures on roofs, vultures on chimneys. The most we had in one yard was two or three dozen. 8-)
The simplest answer for the guy with the complaints is to cut down those big trees. But that would deprive him of his excuse.
Why doesn't the vulture-plagued guy get the beagle club guy to come by and eliminate his vultures? Sounds like a win-win to me.
Were the vultures really attacking his children? Maybe that would teach the kids to stop playing the old game of "Carcass".
I too was curious as to how you get simonella (as the guy words it in the vid). I thought TVs were the end of most diseases but I guess if you eat feces you might get a disease.
Yesterday a gang of chickadees tried to steal my wallet until I pished them into a frenzy.
OH, FOR GOD'S SAKE!
What a loser.
Those big, mean birds kept the guy from paying his morgage.
And I was wondering about the strep thing, too. What are his kids doing with those birds?
I hope some vultures find him in Montana and poop on his head.
Turkey Buzzard turd ARE dangerous... they puke too when startled and it smell like ammonia. There were over 10 dozen at this house it RI. I live nearby and I complained too. they kill tress when thy roost in large numbers like in Ashaway, RI. Their turds burn the leaves below and they tend not to grow back. I love creatures but when they weren't around then all of a sudden decide to upset somebody's lifestyle and property then you "bird brains" should show more sense. I can't wait to see what happens when even a dozen decides to roost on your rooftop and start crapping and shiitting on YOUR home. Oh the aroma!!
Normally, I would delete an anonymous comment with that much profanity, but your responding to an old post buried in the blog that very few people will see.
As someone who works with an education turkey vulture and has experienced vulture vomit first hand, I would welcome a dozen or so vultures roosting my property and find ways of living with them.
By the way, you really don't know what a bad smell is until you have experience pelican vomit or cormorant vomit, who also vomit when threatened as a defense mechanism. Both smell far worse than turkey vulture vomit. Boy, if these vultures were vomiting in the yard of the homeowner often, I wonder what was being done to them to make them feel threatened?
If you care to respond to this, leave out the profanity, or it will be deleted. Because, I don't care for it here,it really is not making you sound very intelligent, and not helping to reinforce your argument.
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