Sort of creepy, like Alfred Hitchcock movie. The vultures are targeting a bank next.
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Vultures on a 55 West balcony
Source: WKMG-TV
55 West: The view from the outside.
Vulture funds have been a key player in the financial crisis but one luxury condo building in downtown Orlando is being taken over by ACTUAL vultures. You know, the big, grim-reaper looking birds that prey on sick or weak animals. The building, at 55 West Church Street is mostly vacant. And, like their financial counterparts that prey on distressed assets ? these feathery predators have swooped in to take over this distressed piece of Florida real estate.
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even up here in Jersey.I've seen them at altitude,cruising and could never tell the species until last summer.
I had fixed a suspension rattle in a Camry and test rode the car on backstreets where there was no ambient traffic noise,I had all the windows down so I could hear the slightest rattle.
As I'm going around a hapless "road kill" squirrel,I hear what sounded like a large flag blowing in a stiff wind.It was actually a Turkey Vulture landing to have lunch.It was a huge bird with a red head and the wingspan had to be between 5-6ft! The damn thing looked right at me as if to say "*** is your problem"?..lol.
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That was a turkey buzzard. They're probably the largest bird on the east coast, although maybe the bald eagle is larger. Most of what I see here in Maryland are those smaller black buzzards. They stink if you get close, have the smell of rotting meat on them, I think it emanates from their body odor too.
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I passed within 10ft of that bird and it was damn near the size of a German Shepherd.
Shortly thereafter,I envisioned a scene from the movie,Patton.Where Bradley and his aides came upon the massacre at Kassarine Pass.Bradley's aide stood up in the back of his Jeep and executed a vulture with two quick shots from a Thompson 
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