Subject: Re: TVs
Date: Aug 19 07:08:59 1996
From: Welden Clark - clark at olympus.net


Hi Tom, & Tweeters ...

The definitive word on TV migrations, in my view, would come from Diann
MacRae in the Seattle area and on the HMANA board. She's been doing a
multi-year fall migration study of the concentrations that form in southern
Vancouver Island, and has, I recall, observed ~1000 crossing the Juan de
Fuca strait with landfall near Striped Peak west of Port Angeles, about the
last few days of September. Her '95 "Birder's Guide to Washington" has lots
of refs to TVs.

We had 306 sightings at Cape Flattery this spring, and 214 in spring '95,
but we don't do fall counts.

At our place about 750 ft elevation south of Sequim we see them almost every
day ... usually loners but sometimes 4 to 8, perusing the fields and hillsides.

Welden