Through her hedges, a West Palm Beach woman tells The Palm Beach Post, she can see the silhouette of an elderly neighbor leaving four 20-pound bags of dog food in her yard a couple of times a week.

The neighbor also puts out roasted chickens and sandwich trays.

But she doesn’t have a dog.

And what she’s attracting has her neighbors at their wits’ end.

Raccoons are a problem, to be sure.

But they’re nothing compared to the vultures.

Scores of black vultures, attracted by the food, have taken over luxurious Ibis Golf and Country Club, according to the Post. They roost on homes, tear apart screened porches, dent cars with their beaks and chase families from their pools and patios.

They can be a danger to household pets and even young children.

And then there’s the vomiting.

It’s so bad that one family won’t even visit its new $700,000 vacation home.

"The smell is like a thousand rotting corpses,” Siobhan Casimano tells the Post.

The problem, according to Cheryl Katz, is her next-door neighbor, Irma Acosta Arya. Katz has watched Arya leave out food for the birds and notices the empty dog food bags in her neighbor’s recycling bin.

She’s also witnessed first-hand the carnage the vultures can create.

In May, Katz tells the Post, 20 vultures tore into her pool enclosure, got trapped inside and attacked each other in their haste to escape.

“Imagine 20 large vultures trapped, biting each other — and they can bite through bones,” Katz tells the Post. “They would bang against my windows running away from a bird that was attacking them. Blood was everywhere. It was a vile, vicious, traumatic event.”

Arya used to wade into the nearby swamp to feed the alligators, Katz tells the Post. She stopped after the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission had to remove an alligator from the area and shoot it.

Gordon Holness, president of the Ibis Property Owners Association, tells the Post that both the POA and Fish and Wildlife have warned Arya about her feedings. In September, she is scheduled to appear in front of the POA’s Rules and Compliance Committee and will receive a fine. She’ll also be given a cease and desist order from Ibis’ lawyer. The community is calling Fish and Wildlife back to issue her a citation, Holness tells the Post.

In the meantime, community residents have tried everything they can to scare off the vultures. Fireworks or balloons have had little effect.

Stan Smith, a program assistant in agriculture and natural resources at the Ohio State University Extension, tells the Post that the most effective strategy might be to get a federal permit to kill one of the vultures, then hang it in a tree where other vultures can see it.

“A black-headed vulture will not go within eyesight of its own dead, which is bizarre,” Smith tells the Post. “They eat roadkill, but if they see their own, they will not go near it.”

The problem? Vultures are federally protected, so getting a permit to kill one would be difficult.

So, the neighbors cope with the nuisance birds as best they can. Or avoid them altogether.

In the Casimanos case, that means staying in their native New York.

“The vultures just vomit everywhere,” Siobhan Casimano tells the Post. “Defecating and vomiting. It’s just gross.”