293 examples of buzzards in sentences

" THE SCAVENGERS Fifty-seven buzzards, one on each of fifty-seven fence posts at the rancho El Tejon, on a mirage-breeding September morning, sat solemnly while the white tilted travelers' vans lumbered down the Canada de los Uvas.

Through it all the buzzards sit on the fences and low hummocks, with wings spread fanwise for air.

The increase of wild creatures is in proportion to the things they feed upon: the more carrion the more buzzards.

The buzzards have all the time, and no beak is dropped or talon struck until the breath is wholly passed.

When Timmie O'Shea was lost on Armogossa Flats for three days without water, Long Tom Basset found him, not by any trail, but by making straight away for the points where he saw buzzards stooping.

There are three kinds of noises buzzards make,it is impossible to call them notes,raucous and elemental.

Once at Red Rock, in a year of green pasture, which is a bad time for the scavengers, we saw two buzzards, five ravens, and a coyote feeding on the same carrion, and only the coyote seemed ashamed of the company.

When the five coyotes that range the Tejon from Pasteria to Tunawai planned a relay race to bring down an antelope strayed from the band, beside myself to watch, an eagle swung down from Mt. Pinos, buzzards materialized out of invisible ether, and hawks came trooping like small boys to a street fight.

The hawk follows the badger, the coyote the carrion crow, and from their aerial stations the buzzards watch each other.

Where the carrion is, there will the buzzards be gathered together, and in three days' journey you will not sight another one.

To these shambles came buzzards, vultures, and coyotes from all the country round, so that on the Tejon, the Ceriso, and the Little Antelope there were not scavengers enough to keep the country clean.

It is the country of the bighorn, the wapiti, and the wolf, nesting place of buzzards, land of cloud-nourished trees and wild things that live without drink.

Winnenap', whose memory ran to the time when the boundary of the Paiute country was a dead-line to Shoshones, told me once how himself and another lad, in an unforgotten spring, discovered a nesting place of buzzards a bit of a way beyond the borders.

So, not quite meaning to, but breathless with daring, they crept up a gully, across a sage brush flat and through a waste of boulders, to the rugged pines where their sharp eyes had made out the buzzards settling.

There are always solitary hawks sailing above the mesa, and where some blue tower of silence lifts out of the neighboring range, an eagle hanging dizzily, and always buzzards high up in the thin, translucent air making a merry-go-round.

The day was bright and sunny, and the shadows of two or three turkey buzzards, who were circling in the air, moved over the field in front of the house.

We could see the buzzards and carrion crows.

I used to hear old mistress say, 'There goes the buzzards, done et all the meat off.'

"Those space buzzards are not detail men-just grab and destroy without even looking around.

Then the novelist said harshly,pointing to the picture on the easel,"You're not going to let that flock of buzzards feed on this, are you?

"Yes?" The Ranger answered in a low tone, "You are to watch for buzzards, Aaron.

" Alone on the peak where he had sat with Sibyl the day of their last climb, Aaron King watched for the buzzards' telltale, circling flightand tried not to think.

Do you not see the huge buzzards flying above the tree?

The cañon was too deep and dark for either wolves or buzzards to enter, and nothing alive had been seen by us in the shape of wild game of any sort.

Even the buzzards and coyotes knew better than to go out in into the country where the cursed Mormon saint sent us numbskulls."

293 examples of  buzzards  in sentences