Buzzards make annual return to Hinckley

Ranking right up there with groundhogs not seeing their shadows in February and the first flower petals breaking through the snow to signal the coming of spring, there is another rite to mark the changing of the seasons – the return of the buzzards in Hinckley, Ohio.

Every March 15 since 1957, the city of Hinckley awaits the return of the buzzards from their winter hiatus. Around dawn, a spotter and hundreds of other people with binoculars peel their eyes upward to be the first to spot the buzzards coming back to Buzzard’s Roost at Hinckley Reservation in the Cleveland Metroparks.

– Meredith Rodriguez, Stevens Strategic Communications