Bird Watching

Bird Watching in Hartsville

Submitted by on Tue, 06/05/2007 - 15:00. Hobbies & Clubs

There are some lovely birds in Hartsville, and I enjoy watching them. I have heard that Kalmia Gardens has an amazing variety of birds, and that it is a popular location for birdwatchers in the area.

A few weekends ago, my middle son was practicing his driving and we drove through the back parking lot of North Hartsville Elementary School and saw about 40 of the biggest, ugliest looking birds I have ever seen. They were on the light posts, the building, the parking lot... before I could get the camera out of my pocketbook, they all flew up and circled the parking lot.

This is a bad photo, but the wingspan was huge!!!

Some of them landed onto a tree, so I got a semi-close up shot of them:

So, tell me... what are they? Vultures? Something from Tales from the Crypt??

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hawks, buzzards

Submitted by Janice on Tue, 06/05/2007 - 15:22.

I don't know the scientific name but they look like the hawks at my house. I've heard stories for a long time about birds and hawks leaving cats and small dogs high up in the trees. The first time I heard this I asked, how do you know the cat didn't climb up there? I was told because the only remains were cat bodies. When I was a child growing up way out in the country, we used to call them hawks and buzzards but I don't think those terms are interchangeable. I just always remembered and out here we never let little puppies and kittens out alone.

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Looks like a Turkey Vulture to me

Submitted by Ted King on Tue, 06/05/2007 - 18:27.

These guys used to congregate in the woods across the street from our house on Home Avenue. That would be the intersection with Kings Place today (the site of my greatgrandfathers house which burned in the late 40's.)

We used to play dead to try and get them to come invesitgate - never worked. We would have probably run screaming if they ever so much as gave us a second look. Scary Birds

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thank you, Ted!

Submitted by on Tue, 06/05/2007 - 20:17.

From the looks of the photo on the hyperlink, those were indeed turkey vultures.

They were circling over my van so much, I figured we better carrion.

Ha!

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Turkey Vultures

Submitted by sherryfm on Wed, 06/06/2007 - 05:22.

Turkey vultures or buzzards, if you are from the south. Hawks are also really growing in number around here, but they are not nearly as ugly. Usually if you see that many buzzards together, they have spotted a dead animal.

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BIRDWOMAN OF ALCATRAZ

Submitted by Sandy Sue on Wed, 06/06/2007 - 06:54.

I KNOW QUITE A FEW HAWKS AND BUZZARDS ALL TOO WELL (TWO-LEGGED ONES!)

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