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FAYETTE POWER PLANT VULTURES #13083340 03/06/19 12:30 AM
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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 [Re: RANGERBOB] #13083359 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 [Re: Fishspanker] #13083431 03/06/19 01:57 AM
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Originally Posted by Fishspanker
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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I thought it was Bastrop where they were damaging vehicles and they won't let you touch them?

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Originally Posted by Legend LE-195
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 [Re: RANGERBOB] #13085524 03/08/19 12:53 AM
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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 [Re: RANGERBOB] #13085564 03/08/19 01:27 AM
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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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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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Originally Posted by Rayzor
Originally Posted by Legend LE-195
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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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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Black Buzzards too..


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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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Originally Posted by Rayzor
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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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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Originally Posted by Hookem
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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