Discuss: On Coming Back as a Buzzard
11 comments
9 Keely on Sep 28, 2009
10 Stephanie Kasper on Oct 09, 2009
a parrot - long life, intelligence, beauty
11 Susan Sander on Nov 25, 2009
Each fall I hike with 6th graders at outdoor ed camp along the bend of the Frio River in central Texas with high steep bluffs and often hundreds of vultures during their migration. We watch for UFOs of all sorts but it’s the vultures that always captivate and give me a chance to expand young minds about birds and their beauty and place in our world. Your reminder is important, vultures commit no act of violence to obtain their food (altho a biologist friend noted black vultures stretching out wings in a cave and flicking bats from the nearby wall - much to their surprise and next meal enjoyment).
As for the next step to get to being a vulture I tend to view it as my chance to become a habitat, especially after reading much about Dr Bill Bass and the body-farm. And what better way to finally see the planet than a soaring perspecitve. The best way to recycle (or gift) life is to become the basis for a new level of living.
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I love Orion. But as part of a constant push towards public education, we often stress that the term Buzzard refers to buteos (hawks) and is commonly used in Europe. Vultures are not buzzards. Just a pet peeve of mine and sad to see the misnomer continue.