To Ratty’s readers,
Ratty, being of a somewhat shy and retiring nature, (you can understand why considering his name) has asked me to come to his readers with an apology.
The “vulture” hanging from the tower is in fact a fake. Yes, it is a scare buzzard, or a fright vulture, bogus bird, or whatever.
It did not get tangled in fish line.
The tower was a regular “Buzzards roost” and as the birds congregated each evening they were whitewashing the nearby homes, at no charge. Enters the state at stage right.
They hung the faux vulture way up there and guess what, it works, no more vultures.
Ratties suggestion is that we hang a few litter bugs, not necessarily in effigy, as a warning to others of their ilk along the highways of our fine state.
Long live Ratty,
Chaz
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