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FAYETTE POWER PLANT VULTURES
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03/06/19 12:30 AM
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RANGERBOB
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HOLA, anyone experience, or know of these birds still damaging vehicles? is it only Park Prairie and not Oak Thicket?
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Re: FAYETTE POWER PLANT VULTURES
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03/06/19 12:48 AM
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Park Prarrie is worse. I parked there a number of times before they ate a bunch of stuff off my truck. They roost in the trees in the first cove. Since then it's always been Oak Thicket without a issue there. But you know those truck eating bastards are lurking.
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Re: FAYETTE POWER PLANT VULTURES
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03/06/19 01:57 AM
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Park Prarrie is worse. I parked there a number of times before they ate a bunch of stuff off my truck. They roost in the trees in the first cove. Since then it's always been Oak Thicket without a issue there. But you know those truck eating bastards are lurking. This is what I have always heard. Don't say you heard it here but I ALWAYS park with my trailer toward the restroom.
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Re: FAYETTE POWER PLANT VULTURES
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03/06/19 02:20 AM
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I thought it was Bastrop where they were damaging vehicles and they won't let you touch them?
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Re: FAYETTE POWER PLANT VULTURES
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03/08/19 12:18 AM
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Rayzor
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I thought it was Bastrop where they were damaging vehicles and they won't let you touch them? This is just what I have seen and heard. The vultures on Bastrop seem to stay across the lake from North Shore park where the big power line tower is. I have never heard or read of anyone having their vehicle damaged on Bastrop. You can't harm Turkey Vultures in Texas or any other state.
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Re: FAYETTE POWER PLANT VULTURES
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03/08/19 12:53 AM
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Bruce Allen
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are you all talking about real vultures or those pesky crows that hang around Walmart parking lots?
Real vultures, like Rayzor said are protected, are really neat birds. They mate for life, live in family flocks and not only mouth feed their babies but also the old members of their tribe.
And if we didn't have them all of those skunks (and other varmints) that adorn our highways would still be there stinking away if they didn't make a lunch out of them.
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Re: FAYETTE POWER PLANT VULTURES
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03/08/19 01:27 AM
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Rayzor
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The discussion should be about vultures. Yes, they do a lot of good by removing carcasses. Unfortunately, vultures have this odd taste for rubber on cars. Those birds in parking lots, which are probably European Starlings, splatter cars with their droppings. They don't eat your windshield wipers.
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Re: FAYETTE POWER PLANT VULTURES
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03/08/19 01:38 AM
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a guy was telling me that his church had problems with buzzards damaging the roof and they were able to get a permit to shoot them....he went on to say they took one of the dead buzzards and tied in up in a tree beside the church and other buzzards refused to come anywhere near the church after that.... guy that told me this is a pretty straight shooter so I'm pretty sure this is a factual story...
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Re: FAYETTE POWER PLANT VULTURES
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03/08/19 04:47 AM
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I thought it was Bastrop where they were damaging vehicles and they won't let you touch them? This is just what I have seen and heard. The vultures on Bastrop seem to stay across the lake from North Shore park where the big power line tower is. Not when I was there last month the were all over the north shore parking lot, didn't mess with my truck though thankfully.
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Re: FAYETTE POWER PLANT VULTURES
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03/08/19 12:03 PM
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They got my truck and a few others in the parking lot really bad back in 2013 (park prairie). Truck was brand new and had to file an insurance claim. Ate all the rubber door seals, cowling, pieces of plastic bedliner, and clawed/[censored] all over it.
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Re: FAYETTE POWER PLANT VULTURES
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03/08/19 12:58 PM
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ForkedJames
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Black Buzzards too..
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Re: FAYETTE POWER PLANT VULTURES
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03/08/19 01:55 PM
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Had the same problem at Martin Creek Lake. Don't know what the park rangers did but have not seen buzzards this year.
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Re: FAYETTE POWER PLANT VULTURES
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03/08/19 02:35 PM
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The discussion should be about vultures. Yes, they do a lot of good by removing carcasses. Unfortunately, vultures have this odd taste for rubber on cars. Those birds in parking lots, which are probably European Starlings, splatter cars with their droppings. They don't eat your windshield wipers. Nope. The black birds that swarm parking lots, live oaks, power lines, etc are Grackles.
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Re: FAYETTE POWER PLANT VULTURES
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03/08/19 04:01 PM
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Hookem
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Bastrop had issues with buzzards until they started to fire off air cannons. My buddy's truck had most of his windshield gasket chewed.
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Re: FAYETTE POWER PLANT VULTURES
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03/08/19 04:34 PM
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Bastrop had issues with buzzards until they started to fire off air cannons. My buddy's truck had most of his windshield gasket chewed. This happened to me at Bastrop years ago. I was surprised my windshield didnt blow out on the way home. Resealed it myself and luckily never had any issues.
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