Today
Camp Fire USA encourages all adults everywhere to write encouraging
and loving letters to the children in their lives. After all, every
child is pretty darned incredible!
What
do kids do on a day like today? (Aside from reading any letters that
come their way, of course...) How about some cute coloring pages?
Let's
face it...
Kids
already have a few special days in the year. Kids often get to
celebrate their birthdays, and maybe Christmas or Hanukkah. Lots of
kids love to celebrate Halloween, too. There's some special someones
who don't get much attention, all year long, who have a special day
today, too:
Buzzard
Day!
Supposedly,
every day on March 15, turkey buzzards come to Hinkley, Ohio. Early
in 1957, somebody published a report saying that some private records
showed that the turkey buzzards arrive on the same day of the year,
and pretty soon reporters and ornithologists (scientists who study
birds) started talking about the report, and wondering if it was
true. That year, when March 15th came along, 9,000 people
showed up in Hinkley! The town was startled—and completely unready
for a huge crowd of visitors. Were the townsfolk embarrassed by
turkey buzzard no-shows? Were all those visitors disappointed in
their quest to see one of nature's “miracles”?
No
and no: The turkey buzzards flew into town, just as predicted, and
thus Buzzard Day in Hinkley got famous fast!
What
are turkey buzzards?
You
may know that turkey buzzards are scavengers that live on
already-dead animals. They do a great job of keeping the environment
nice for everybody else—because they are like Mother Nature's
garbage collectors and morticians, combined.
Turkey
buzzards have featherless red heads that resemble the heads of wild
turkeys.
Also
on this date:
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