When I was a kid, I had a Friend that had a horse, and we would go riding through the pine woods, and one day some buzzards were on the other side of a big patch of palmettos, and when we got near, they flew up, and the horse turned around, and was trying to go the other way. I asked my Buddy, why his horse was so shy of buzzards, and he said a few years before then, they had rounded a big patch of palmettos, and a flock of buzzards, and they had been feeding on a dead cow, and when they flew up, they puked on him and his horse! He said he threw up, and then rode the horse into a canal, and dove under the water,and tried to wash off the stench, and had to go home, and wash the clothes a couple of times, he had to wash the horse, down, and the saddle, and blanket. He said he would never knowingly get that close to a buzzard again! They do that to be lighter, to be able to escape what they perceive as a threat. Not something I would ever want to happen to me. Too bad we couldn't train them to do that on command. Be some political events, where that would be absolutely perfect! Feed em a good helping of road kill, and four day old fish! Oh, yeah, that would be so apropos!
Wayne
