I’m guessing that’s what was going on, anyway. It was just before dusk and the sky was heavily overcast. I look up and see a buzzard soar overhead, then another, then another and another… They were flying east to west, hardly flapping their wings, mostly just gliding. They were flying much lower than migrating ducks or geese and were not as bunched up and not in any formation. I watched them pass over for a good five minutes and I would estimate seventy to a hundred birds.
Very cool and a little eerie with the light conditions and all.
I’m torn between saying how very cool or suggesting that you run and hide because they know of the oncoming zombie apocalypse. Zombies would be good eating for buzzards!
Back in AZ, the turkey buzzards did migrate. They would come to AZ when it was warm and then move down to Mexico when it started getting cool. Or perhaps they just went to Tucson, I don’t remember.
Very cool that you got to see it, though 
Buzzards don’t migrate. . . there was a special on dead rabbits - two for one, about six blocks away. . . Don’t worry, it’s not a sign -
Turkey vultures have pretty spectacular migrations. Here in Panama we have an annual raptor watch that counts up to two million raptors (Turkey Vultures and Broad-winged and Swainson’s Hawks) in a period of six weeks every fall. The largest number are Turkey Vultures, of which we get more than a million every year. I’ve been at the watch site on Ancon Hill on days on which more than 600,000 Turkey Vultures have passed overhead.
The heck they don’t …
http://cleveland.about.com/od/clevelandareaparks/p/buzzards.htm
The article’s about a Midwest town which celebrates the annual return of migratory buzzards.
I recall seeing a documentary short about this at the movie house back in around 1963. I’ve always vaguely wanted to attend the festival one year but never got off the dime while I lived in the Midwest.
I just Googled for [buzzard migration celebration]. 149,000 hits. It turns out there are a lot of such festivals all over the central US. It’s amazing what small towns will do for fun.
Turkey buzzards also pee on their legs to freshen up.
I love when I get to share little factoids like that.
I guess this must be what I saw some years ago. I had taken my kid to a playground, and I happened to look up, and way, way up in the sky, so high up that you could barely see them, were… just vast numbers of birds. I thought they looked like hawks, but vultures makes sense. It was really quite an awe-inspiring sight.