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First sign of spring!
« on: March 08, 2006, 10:44:50 am »
The Buzzards have finally come back!  8)


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Re: First sign of spring!
« Reply #1 on: March 08, 2006, 11:06:22 am »
Some of the garbage our dog dragged all over the yard right before snow that we didn't get a chance to pick up has come back too!!  :D :D :D  >:(
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Re: First sign of spring!
« Reply #2 on: March 08, 2006, 11:10:06 am »
I really know when spring as truly arrived at a certain point something else suddenly appears in the back yard. EVERYWHERE. You see we have 3 dogs.


Another picture of a Buzzard, closer up:)


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Re: First sign of spring!
« Reply #3 on: March 08, 2006, 11:32:45 am »
Spring fertilizer for the back lawn perhaps?
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Re: First sign of spring!
« Reply #4 on: March 08, 2006, 11:39:18 am »
Yeah Jeff, I hate it when dem buzzards that were too lazy to migrate South dig down into the yard to hibernate for winter.  Every Fall, before the first snow, I walk around the yard looking for where they dug in and then I stomp on them and pack the dirt down.  It doesn't seem to hurt them any and sure as the sun rises they start popping up in the Spring.  I saw one or two last weekend but then we got 4 inches of fresh snow on Sunday and I think they got back down into their holes.  If it weren't so DanG muddy in the Springtime, I think it would be good sport to ride around the yard on my lawn tractor whacking off their DanG heads as they pop up. :o 8)
Dem folks down South probably have never experienced something like this and have no idea what the folks in the north have to go through every year. ::)
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Re: First sign of spring!
« Reply #5 on: March 08, 2006, 12:21:42 pm »
Charlie, thats no joke. They are about as bad as dandelions 'cept dandelions can at least be made into wine. There ain't a danG thing you can make out of a buzzard fit to consume.   We had one winter where it got so cold so quick that the buzzards didn't get turned around in their burrows before the freeze hit. I wasn't sure what to make of it that spring until after closer examination we had buzzard butts emerging. What a mess. You step on one of those things and yer looking for unmelted snow to wipe your shoes off in before you go in the house. :-\
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Re: First sign of spring!
« Reply #6 on: March 08, 2006, 12:50:04 pm »
80's today, march winds, buzzards flying, birds a chirpin, foresters healing, trees a sproutin that yaller stuff, b-b-q on the grill this evening, cold beer to cut the heat, maybe some shrimps to go with the steak, who knows.

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Re: First sign of spring!
« Reply #7 on: March 08, 2006, 01:08:49 pm »
Yea, well you can thank Charlie for the fact that you can sit down there and watch them buzzards fly. If it had been dryer, and the sub-zero hadn't kilt his mower Battery, dem Buzzards would be mostly headless, Course, then you could thank Charlie for a different reason, cause if I was a Buzzard flying around yer house with a head to see and aim with and a full load, I know what I'd do with it. ;D 
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Re: First sign of spring!
« Reply #8 on: March 08, 2006, 01:30:42 pm »
Quote from: Jeff B on March 08, 2006, 12:21:42 pm
There ain't a danG thing you can make out of a buzzard fit to consume.

We have a bird called a Pukeko down here.  It is some sort of swamp hen.  You could try the standard Pukeko recipe on your Buzzards

Take one Pukeko
Place in a large pot
Add one large rock
Boil vigorously until the rock is tender
Throw away Pukeko
Serve rock with gravy

Delicious ;D
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Re: First sign of spring!
« Reply #9 on: March 08, 2006, 07:21:31 pm »
Stewed plastic pink flamingo is great too -  :D
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Re: First sign of spring!
« Reply #10 on: March 08, 2006, 08:03:06 pm »
Well, it must be warmer in Michigan than it is here with dem hibernating buzzards popping up all ready.  Dem hibernating buzzards are the most worthless lazy ones of the specie.  The smart ones headed South.  I jes hate dem hibernating ones.  If'n I knew where they was hibernating, I'd go pound on them with a 12 pound sledge.  I think I'm gonna dig some of 'em up and ship 'em down to Texas. 
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Re: First sign of spring!
« Reply #11 on: March 08, 2006, 08:10:59 pm »
I am starting to wonder if a few of you haven't suffered frostbite - or a really bad case of cabin fever!
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Re: First sign of spring!
« Reply #12 on: March 08, 2006, 08:29:39 pm »
Ya, It's Spring :(



Hail Storm going right now.

It's 1/2" now with 1" to 2" possible :o
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Re: First sign of spring!
« Reply #13 on: March 08, 2006, 11:57:09 pm »
YEA!  Al, I don't know if you got them DanG spring buzzards in Iowa, but if'n ya do, that should take em out! 8)
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Re: First sign of spring!
« Reply #14 on: March 09, 2006, 12:12:55 am »
Spring done showed up in Arkansas... I got bit by a mosquito the other day...   :-\

Pretty nice weather though...
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Re: First sign of spring!
« Reply #15 on: March 09, 2006, 08:42:45 am »
The buzzards have been flying around here from a month or more.  They left out for about a week when we had a cold snap.  I’ve seen more bald eagles this year than ever – maybe because I was at home instead of at the office.



The daffodils are shooting up and starting to bloom.  The wheat is starting to come up and turn green where there’s been enough moisture.

Of all the major storms going through since last Saturday,  we’ve only got enough to settle the dust.  Finally this morning we got enough rain to make a puddle and it looks like more is coming.   Now it'll probably rain for fourty days and fourty nights.
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Re: First sign of spring!
« Reply #16 on: March 09, 2006, 09:00:07 am »
Snowed yesterday morning but the geese are returning in droves so they must know something. 8)
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Re: First sign of spring!
« Reply #17 on: March 09, 2006, 09:46:32 am »
They know that if they keep messing up the porchs and fields down here they will end up on the table.  :D
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Re: First sign of spring!
« Reply #18 on: March 09, 2006, 09:53:46 am »
You eat Buzzards?
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Re: First sign of spring!
« Reply #19 on: March 09, 2006, 10:58:54 am »
I think it's a Southern Thing Jeff
 
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