Subject: TUVU Sightings, Crossing Juan de Fuca Strait
Date: Sep 23 20:08:31 1996
From: Welden Clark - clark at olympus.net


Hi, Tweeters ...

We're passing on a telephone report from Diann MacRae, coordinator of the
Olympic Vulture Study. Diann and associate Ann van der Geld are observing,
as in past years, from Salt Creek, west of Port Angeles and immediately west
of Striped Peak and across from the Sooke area of Vancouver Island.

On 9/22, Sunday, 469 TUVUs were observed arriving at the coastline after
crossing the Strait. And on 9/23, Monday, another 635 arrived, directly over
their observation site.

No sizeable numbers were observed on 9/21, Saturday (when Bryan Gates
reported a large flight circling over S Vancouver Island) and the Salt Creek
area was beset by rain and overcast.

[A personal note ... we don't have Diann's records at hand, but these
flights seem to us to be a week or so earlier than in the past several years.]

The Olympic Vulture Study researchers are particularly interested in
sightings of flights over water -- the Strait of Georgia, Strait of Juan de
Fuca, Puget Sound, etc. -- but also in other parts of Washington, in
attempting to understand the southward migration of the Turkey Vultures from
Vancouver Island. Please send information to: Diann MacRae, Olympic Vulture
Study, 22622 53rd Avenue S E, Bothell, WA 98021, USA (or forward to
<clark at olympus.net> and we'll see that she gets it).

Welden & Virginia Clark
clark at olympus.net