The big ironic thing to do in Cleveland and Northeast Ohio on March 15 is to go to the Hinckley Reservation of Metroparks Wildside, the city, and view the return of the buzzards. In fact, with the locals called buzzards, or vultures. There’s actually no need to travel out to Hinckley, because many committees of buzzards return to the streets of Cleveland, particularly in the abandon zones, and, one in particular, which has been known as the forgotten triangle.
Much like the scrappers, the birds perform a pretty vital function and clean up wasted dead carcasses. The vulture alsolike toroost on chimnsys, and, on the tall factory chimneys you can find committeees of vultures perxhed in a circle on top. Of course, this wasn’t possiblw when the factories were active.
The turkey vulture, Cathartes aura, can be taken to mean either “golden purifier” or “purifying breeze.” If approached they won’t usuually claw or peck at you, but when threatened, turkey vultures vomit a combination of partially digested meat and strong stomach acid, in your direction. Vultures have the strongest gastric acid in the Animal Kingdom. With a pH of just over 0, it’s stronger than battery acid
