Here is the fabulous Sharon Lux from the Treasure Coast Progressive Alliance.
I love Protest Art!
I also love Vultures!
Vultures are defenders of the Environment. These are birds that have a job.
http://www.examiner.com/article/the-beneficial-buzzard-clearing-the-air-about-vultures
One of the main misconceptions about vultures is that they spread disease. This is absolutely untrue. In fact, the opposite is true… vultures actually prevent viruses, bacteria and other pathogens from spreading in the environment. A vulture’s stomach acid is a unique compound that not only allows the bird to ingest disease processes, but also removes said disease from the environment. Once a virus, bacterium or other type of disease goes into the vulture, it never comes back out! Vultures help stop the spread of rabies, anthrax, cholera, brucellosis and many other pathogens that could otherwise harm other wildlife and even humans!
Fun Fact: The Cherokee name for vulture means Peace Eagle – because unlike most meat eaters, vultures do not kill for food.
They don’t kill the alive. They only eat the dead.
Vultures are my spirit birds.
http://www.linsdomain.com/totems/pages/vulture.htm
The Vulture is the symbol of death and rebirth, the mother symbol,
and represents purification.
For those with this totem,
you will be noticed more for what you do than how you appear.
Vulture or Condor
teaches us how to soar above our limitations.
The Vulture promises us that no matter
how difficult things are at the moment,
rescue and change are imminent.
http://seeingmiracleseveryday.blogspot.com/2009/11/behold-turkey-vulture.html
“I learned that the turkey vulture’s wing span is approximately 6 feet wide (I can vouch for their incredible size from this animal soaring within 10 feet of me on my deck!). Their task in life is to clean up the mess, but an even more interesting aspect of the turkey vulture is that it is the only bird (or presumably only animal) whose feces is disease free. So the turkey vulture kindly cleans up dead carcasses or rotting flesh, then purifies them from any bacteria – making them perhaps nature’s most perfect cleansing animal. They struggle with take off and appear awkward in early flight, but once they are off the ground, they soar like eagles (often mistaken as such at a distance), and can fly for hours without ever flapping their wings, riding thermals and currents. The turkey vulture that appeared to me did absolute acrobatics around me, looping effortlessly in glorious flight.”
http://myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/profiles/birds/raptors-and-vultures/vultures/
“Vultures are under state protection, therefore it is unlawful to shoot or harass them without a permit from the FWC. If however, the vulture is tearing up a screen porch, or chewing up shingles or roofs, then you may want to consider scaring them with Pyrotechnics. The Wildlife Services group of the United States Department of Agriculture at 352-377-5556 can provide more information.”
So in this video RIck Scott came to the locks and while he was there the vultures showed up and when he left they left.
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