[USCC] Eliminating Buzzards from windrows

[Michael Nevin]

Hi - I was just reading that much of Texas is suffering severe drought.
Would this be true of the Plano, TX area?
If so, and there is drought, would this affect the buzzard's normal feeding forcing them to look elsewhere for food? Just a thought.
Cheers, Mike in Toronto

--- On Thu, 7/9/09, Patrick Crowley <pat at crowleyconsultants.com> wrote:


From: Patrick Crowley <pat at crowleyconsultants.com>
Subject: Re: [USCC] Eliminating Buzzards from windrows
To: "'Compost Discussion List'" <compost at mailman.cloudnet.com>
Received: Thursday, July 9, 2009, 10:15 PM


I am puzzled.  I thought Plano composted yard waste.  Why would buzzards dig
into your piles?  Now if you were composting Longhorns in a turned pile, I
could understand.  The buzzards and ravens in Montana do not bother the
carcass compost piles, but then they do have a thick covering of woodchips
as a biofilter.  Perhaps you should turn the piles more often so they do not
smell rotten. 

Pat Crowley
Crowley Consultants LLC
1935 Lucky Strike Road
Helena, MT 59602
(406) 458-1935 phone and fax
(406) 439-9231 cell
pat at crowleyconsultants.com

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[mailto:compost-bounces at mailman.cloudnet.com] On Behalf Of Sherrian Jones
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To: compost at mailman.cloudnet.com
Subject: [USCC] Eliminating Buzzards from windrows

  

Does anyone have any suggestions to discouraging buzzards from perching
and digging through windrows?  Since organics are evenly distributed
through our windrows it is impossible to bury them entirely and we are
plagued with buzzards digging through the rows every evening. 

Best Regards,

Sherrian Jones

Division Manager

Texas Pure Products

972-742-0413 cell

972-390-7743 fax

www.texaspureproducts.com <http://www.texaspureproducts.com/> 



  






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