I may be weird, but I have always been enthralled with the Turkey Vulture. (Also, known as the Turkey Buzzard.) I look forward with seeing the first one soar into Armstrong County, Pennsylvania each year. That date is around March 15th.
I enjoy the gracefulness of their flight. The bird opens their long wingspan allowing them to soar for a long periods of time in the thermal wind drifts. They are easy to identify. The vulture holds their wings in a shallow V-shape.
Sometime ago, I was exploring some rocky cliffs along Redbank Creek. I eased up and over some rocks peering eye to eye with a baby vulture with an irate parent missing my head by inches as the big bird exited past with the escape. Such a hissing sound from the young buzzard was experienced.
They are almost always misidentified as a hawk or eagle. 
The vulture usually migrates south around October 15th each year.
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I am always grateful for the vultures job as clean-up crew here in central NJ!
Yes, they are a needed bird for their efforts!