Every spring scores of people flock to loons. No bands march up and down the the Buzzard Festiva at Hinckley, Ohio streets. There is just a big sign on the road to They come to watch for buzzards. Most tell of the festival. Some smal signs have would be glad just to catch a glimpse of a cartoon drawings of "Buzzy Buzzard" on buzzard. If they do see one of these "flying them. Pancakes and sausages are served. And garbage cans," it will probably be circling that's about it The people come and look around. They high in the sky. From there it can watch the ground for signs of the waste and the dead chat. They eat their fill of pancakes and sausages. Then they get into their cars and animals on which it feeds. The buzzard is the ugliest bird in the drive past Buzzard's Roost on Hinckley United States. In fact t may we be the Ridge ugliest bird in the world. It has a small, bare A lot of them stop near the road at the pink head. Its thick body is covered with stand set up to give information to visitors. There they can hear, from a recording, the dark, rough leathers In spite of its looks, the buzzard, or tur main facts about the buzzard. They can see a key vulture is important to the people of stuffed buzzard. They can look at some pic. Hinckley. It is their first sign of spring tures taken of buzzards in other years. With After a winter in the south, buzzards return good luck and a strong pair of field glasses to their homes in the north. In the Hinckley they may sight one or two live buzzards high in the sky area, they always return on March 15. No one knows why. But they have come back to 10 Buzzards may be ugly. They may be flying garbage cans." But in Hinckley they Hinckley Ridge on that day, sure as clock are just as welcome as the swallows are in 4 work, for at least fifty years The buzzards really arrive before spring are to the Australians, or storks to the Dutch does in Hinckley. But the people are tired of Capistrano. They are as important as emus the long winter. They are eager to hail the and Germans. It would be a sad spring in deed if the buzzards ever failed to come coming of spring. So it doesnt matter them how cold it is on March 15. It doesn't back to Hinckley Ridge matter how raw the winds are. The people of Hinckley still look on the return of the buz. zards each year as the beginning of spring In San Juan Capistrano in California spring is said to start on March 19. On that day the swallows come back to Capistrano. The people or Hinckley aren't so lucky They don't have swallows until later in the year. But they do have buzzards. So they welcome spring with them The excitement starts in February. By the middle of March it has reached a high peak. Bets are placed. Prizes go to the person who sees the first buzzard. Radio stations and newspapers te of the coming festival Pupils in Hinckley's school draw buzzard pictures and put them up in the halls of the hool. And on the weekend after March 15 the people of Hinckley hold their Buzzard Festival There are no bright banners and bak