Buzzard
The buzzard circles what is dying, and to hear one speak in a dream can mark an old scandal rising to do us injury through our connections. The dream tends to touch the carrion-bird patience of a buried trouble waiting to resurface, and to ask what old matter, long thought dead, might yet come back to feed on us.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for buzzard, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To dream that you hear a buzzard talking, foretells that some old scandal will arise and work you injury by your connection with it.
To see one sitting on a railroad, denotes some accident or loss is about to descend upon you. To see them fly away as you approach, foretells that you will be able to smooth over some scandalous disagreement among your friends, or even appertaining to yourself.
To see buzzards in a dream, portends generally salacious gossip or that unusual scandal will disturb you.