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    Amazing and a little scary...nature's garbagemen..Turkey Buzzards

    So...two nights ago we had laminar winds blow through the homestead, and a measured 1.97 inches of rain. Other places in my area had up to 4 inches. In just one night. The storms came in cycles all night long.

    The next day (yesterday) Liz and I go out to survey the damages. Lots of broken tree limbs and one huge one 16 feet long and 8 inches in diameter fell just behind The Roost.

    As we were walking up to The Roost, liz says, " What's that thing ". Something was laying at the base of the steps to The Roost.

    I get up there and it is a dead cat. Not one of ours, but it saddened us both anyway. I have always adopted the role of " Protector of Kitties " since i lived in Nebraska, and do what I can to keep them safe.

    This sight broke our hearts.

    Anyway, I look over what I need to do and we both go back into the house.

    I decided to cremate the kitty rather than try and bury it because of all the digging it would entail, nor could I guarantee some scavengers might dig her up.

    I have some dry wood in the woodshed I built, so all the wet ground is not a problem.

    I am getting stuff ready to do this and to cut up the felled tree trunks when i get a call from some specialist doctors office, and we have a back and forth about my care. Me having to call my primary care doctor...await his reply, then more back & forth.

    OK...back to the task at hand.

    Liz says...did you see those huge monster birds out back ?

    NO

    Then look, I would not go out back just yet, they look scary and mean.

    I grabbed the binoculars...and sure enough...Turkey Buzzards !!!

    I get another call and a few more delays.

    FINALLY, I get to go back out there and dead with the dead cat.

    WHAT DEAD CAT ???

    There was literally NOTHING LEFT !!! I kid you not. Nothing was left except the smell. Everything was gone. Even the skull.
    Nothing but a bald patch of ground where it once was.

    All in about an hour. Talk about efficient !

    Nature's garbage men.

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    The cycle of life. Recently a large crow did that to a squirrel that got run over near here. It didn't take long to eat the entire thing.
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