Buzzards
Medina County is known for being “home of the Buzzards” (more specifically Hinckley Township) and it’s not uncommon to see them flying around these parts. They are quite unsightly and frighteningly large.
Last week when I pulled into our driveway after work I saw about 6 of these ginormous scavengers sitting on the fence beyond the creek that runs behind our house. Some were on the fence, some in the bare trees nearby. It was freaky! Within the next couple of days, the number of buzzards seemed to multiply exponentially and it started to scare me. Andrew said we had better check what they were picking at because where there are buzzards there are usually dead things.
Andrew figured it was a dead animal of some sort, which I wasn’t too keen on seeing. He said we should check to be sure it wasn’t a dead body! And I said that I definitely didn’t want to see that! In the end, it was a dead deer that was still relatively fresh but picked clean. Andrew described the ribs as looking like a crown roast. Lovely. Just another one of those things that comes with the territory.
–c.
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