> --- Roderick and Ellen Robertson
> <rjremr_at_...> wrote:
>
> > Well, your "Buzzard" is our "Red-tailed hawk", as
> > well. Don't know *which*
> > lot of immigrants came up with that one.
>
> Huh? But buzzards don't have red tails!
> http://www.flickr.com/search/groups/?q=buzzard&w=42637302%40N00&m=pool
> There you go, all sorts of buzzards, and not a red
> tail between them.
>
> And when I was over there, attempting to bird watch,
> "buzzard" was being used as a generic term for almost
> any large bird of prey. Including turkey vultures, at
> one point.
I thought a buzzard was an elderly spinster with prince-nez specs and a
sharp tongue? Maggie Smith, you know. Dame Maggie Smith no less.
This is the Immoderate list isn't it?
Sam.