Vultures terrorize Dover neighborhood
Like a scene out of Hitchcock’s The Birds, residents in Dover’s Fox Run neighborhood say they’re being over by vultures.
In a cover story in today’s Delaware State News, residents report more than 100 vultures roosting in some of the neighborhood’s trees off Route 8 in west Dover. The birds are protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
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