Imagine you are a buzzard at the Hinckley Buzzard Festival. Tell what you see as you circle high in the sky. Tell why return to Hinckley Ridge every year. Try to explain how you are feel about the festival.
‘Hinckley Buzzard Festival’ This is the day when the buzzards returned to Hinckley from their wintering grounds. The entire town celebrated the buzzards' return by having a daylong festival.
the buzzard is an important symbol in Hinckley, it continues to be a sustaining source for us at Hinckley Roofing, and an integral part of the community as a whole.
I think I would see the sign of food or something to fill up my stomach. I guess the reason that the Buzzard come back to Hinckley Ridge every year is because the weather is getting warm there and there is a lot of food during this time of the year over there.
I feel that the festival brings people happiness and the great feeling that winter is over.
Buzzards of Hinckley Ridge, one of Ohio's most fascinating natural wonders. The “Buzzards of Hinckley” received a welcome to rival that of the swallows to Capistrano. After it was all over the community took stock. Embarrassed that it had been caught with its manners down, local residents resolved to never let it happen again and established the first Sunday of Spring (whichever follows March 15th ) as Buzzard Sunday. Since that day the community has opened the doors of the elementary school to serve visitors a hot pancake and sausage breakfast as the welcome spring, and the buzzards back to Hinckley.
Buzzards came to feast on the carrion, and today locals honor their return from southern migration with Buzzard Day, an annual festival on March 15, the day of the Great Hinckley Hunt. Celebrate the return of this imposing raptor, Cathartes aura, at Buzzard Day in Makoshika
Another name for them is carrion crows ( Cathartes aura) and are scavengers that live on dead animals.They have very good eyesight and soar through the sky on big updrafts.They are considered Mother Nature's garbage collectors.And, they can live up to twenty years!
Buzzards are a very important part of a healthy ecosystem.Without them, we'd be armpit deep in icky, smelly bodies in no time.Perkins Observatory has a flock of these wondrous and efficient cleanup specialists that roost in our trees.This is a migratory flock, so each year we look for their return. It's a sure sign that Spring has come!