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buzzards
I live in east Texas around the Lufkin/Nacogdoches area. A couple of years ago I was driving home down some back roads and saw a bunch of buzzards (maybe vultures, I don't know what if any the difference is) circling. I didn't think much of it at first, until the flock (swarm?? whatever) got so thick I had to get out of the car to watch them. There were trees lining one side of the road and a pasture on the other with a lot of trees around it, so I didn't have a clear view of the entire "cloud" of birds, but just in the area I could see there were easily a hundred and fifty birds, with no telling how many more out of my line of sight.
The longer I watched, the spookier it got so I ran home to get a camera, but by the time I got back their numbers had diminished greatly, so not really worth the shot at this point. I have never seen more than ten to twenty buzzards anywhere together at one time, and usually less than five. Is there any special reason this many may have come together at one time? Especially since I didn't think there were that many around here in the first place.
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