I had a very weird and scary experience last weekend. Departing KRFG (Refugio, Tx.) on the way home to KAEX, I was climbing to 2000 ft and calling Houston to get my IFR. Cloud bases at about 2300 ft and Houston told me to remain VFR until my clearance was confirmed. I was ready to copy and as I looked up I passed a cloud just above me at 2200 feet and right in front of me was a flock of buzzards - I mean a lot of them circling and out of nowhere. I am not sure if they dropped out of the clouds or what. I had no choice but to go straight ahead and hope I missed all of them. Luckily, no bird strike. I have seen single birds dive away before but have never been confronted with a large flock of 50+ birds circling at varying altitudes.
Anyone ever have this happen? Is the best technique to simply fly straight ahead and hope the birds dive out of the way as they did in my case?