The Vulture Menace

"You want to promote the benefits of vultures? Let's see how you feel when there are 80 roosting next to your house and a couple dozen sitting on your roof and damaging it."


60-80 vultures is stretching it and a majority roosted in the trees. How did the USDA "help" you get rid of them?

By the way, Oya's article was very informational and did not deserve your rude rebuttal.

 

Remember when the Dulles town Center Mall hs the turkey vulture issue a ferw years back? There way of dealing with it was to seriously thin out all the trees that used to be there. No that this is a viable option for the Way Braodlands promotes itself. We like the greenery and after reading this entire link, well thinning trees in all the offended areas would make this place less visually appealing. Also the cost to the HOA to do so would be an issue i'm willing to guess. Not sure what to do about this nusiance. I'd put it right up there with the geese that poop all over sidwalks and grass and such.

 

The thread she's responding to here - the last post was almost a full year old.

The residents took care of the problem, they have been gone from Autumnwood Sq at zero cost to the HOA and as far as I know there are no further issues of them in the Broadlands. They clean up dead junk, nice article and all... but the correct place for that post is right here: Nature/Habitat/Garden Corner.

This thread should be locked IMO, its a moot issue at this point unless the vultures are damaging houses somewhere else here...

 

Yes, they are gone and I'm glad for everyone. What needed to be done was done. It's not a moot point until the dead vulture is removed, though. Now that the leaves are falling, it can be seen hanging there and it's not a pleasant sight. I thought the vulture was only supposed to be hung for 2 weeks? Correct me if I'm wrong.

 

I'd believe the USDA leaves it there as long it takes to ensure they don't return, what the limit is I have no idea. I know they are monitoring it and the vultures in the area, feel free to contact them for more information.

 

All I am trying to say is to deal with the wildlife issues humanly and it seems like that has been finally done.

Thank you.

 

That's how it was taken care of? I was wondering how they did it. Very cool (well, not cool for the subject vulture), but awesome that it worked. Maybe a morbid question, but was it a vulture from that entire lot of them? Like was it cherry picked and hung there? Or, was a dead vulture brought it? I find this fascinating!!!

 

a-w-e-s-o-m-e!!!! sooo glad it worked!

 

Maybe we should hang a teenager up on the first day of summer every year.

 

REALLY? You know this for a fact? How can you come on here and comment on something you have no idea about?? USDA DID NOT come in and shoot one. It was one that was already dead and in their freezer. You might want to get your facts straight before you post.

 

Do you really think it's a-w-e-s-o-m-e? Wow. It's not so awesome when you are out on your deck and see a dead vulture hanging there. It's quite sad, actually.

 

I talked to the USDA guy a couple of days before this happened and was told THEN that it was a vulture they already had in their freezer. So I don't know how your facts said otherwise up until a few hours beforehand.

And this has nothing to do with me liking the vultures or not. I've kept my mouth shut about it because I actually wanted it to work for my neighbor's sake. And it wasn't in plain view before.

 

Near the Southern Walk pool!

 

I would like to suggest that when there is an issue, situation or a problem, whatever we want to call it, that effects the group of the community, it would be helpful to have an "Official Announcement" published so we all can get the information to learn what is going on. I think to "talk" about these kind of issues on the "Forum" can create unnecessary misunderstanding or misinterpretations within the neighbors, which would be nice to avoid if possible.

I had no idea about this issue. I received an e-mail from local "Wildlife" organization saying "...what kind of "wildlife habitat" community are you?..... When I looked in the forums I got lost in the comments, dates and everything else. I wasn't trying to be "insensitive" when I posted the information about vultures but I thought it can be something positive to add after I saw some paintball guns being brought up... I know how that can hurt... My son was into paintballing. It's sometimes hard to tell who is joking or poking on the forums. We all live here and I think we can all benefit from finding out about these type of issues with only "facts" provided by our management if possible.

Thanks and you all have a great week,