Maryland woman barred from backyard feeding of hundreds of vultures loses appeal

Three months have passed since Feng Sun last left raw, bone-in chicken in her backyard, but she asked Howard County’s highest court Tuesday to strike down an injunction and allow her to resume feeding the hundreds of vultures that have flocked to her cul-de-sac.

Circuit Court Judge Daniel Dwyer said he thought the Columbia woman’s heart was in the right place but had the most empathy for Sun’s neighbors, who for months have complained about the foul odor of decaying meat, the excrement dripping down their trees and on their porches and grills, and the regurgitated chicken bones on their roofs.

“Beyond any reasonable doubt, this was a nuisance,” Dwyer said before denying Sun’s latest appeal in an ongoing dispute with county officials…

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