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Buzzard's roost quite a sight in Hurt-Foust Woods
Photo follows this article Driving north from the Columbia Post Office on KY 61/80, Burkesville Street, there's quite a sight over the Gate Gas Station every afternoon starting and about 4:30 p.m. until dark and again at dawn, after which they fly out to do their daily work. It looks like something you'd see on the Serengeti or in Hinckley, OH. Every day, perhaps as many as 50 or more buzzards are roosting high in the trees in the Hurt-Foust Woods, behind the pioneer Hurt family home which fronts on Burkesville St. The buzzards have used the roost as their home for several stints, the landowner, Pamela Hurt Foust, says. And, while the birds occasionally alternate residences and have been reported elsewhere in Columbia, the giant flock of vultures seem to like it best here; and are back now for the third or fourth time, Mrs. Foust says. The Hurt-Foust Woods is a beautiful forest preserve of some 20 acres. It is a sanctuary for deer, turkeys, rabbits, and all manner of wildlife, scarcely one-half mile from the town square. Much of the forest floor is covered with English Ivy, and the growth pretty much insulates the forest and the Hurt-Foust Home from street noise. Years change the woods very little The years change the private forest very little. Always it's a place of beauty and wonder; the beauty from what is happening naturally through the conservancy of its owner; the wonder from the many old artifacts which are found on the forest floor. Twenty-five years or so ago, Mrs. Faust let Linda and me take our youngest son on a walk through the woods. It was a pretty day. I wish the buzzard roost had been there for him to see then, but there were plenty of deer and turkey and trees and there were wondrous boy things like stumps and fallen logs, curious animal and bird sounds. When we walking back toward town on Burkesville ST, our son said, "This has been my most perfect day ever."Yesterday, I walked through the woods to photograph the roost, and the experience made Tuesday, March 15, 2005, another most perfect day. Ed Waggener, March 16, 2005 Comments to: ed@columbiamagazine.com This story was posted on 2005-03-16 17:03:37
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