Hello, Tweets

Here is the July turkey vulture report; the last one for a couple months.
I will be in South Africa for a month, then, two weeks after returning, out
at the Salt Creek County Park vulture monitoring site for 3-4 weeks. I
hope all of you interested will continue to keep track of what our
northwestern vulture friends are doing and post it to me (personally - I
will be off Tweeters while gone). Thanks so much for all the very much
appreciated help. Here's July:

July, 1998

01 - 1 at Ocean Shores, 5-6 in the Mt. Douglas and Cordoba Bay area, B.C.
02 - 2 at Neah Bay, 2 near the Little Quilcene River
03 - 1 in the Wenaha-Tucannon are of the Blue Mountains (!!), 4 at the
I-95 grade near Lewiston
06 - 1 immature over Wynoochee Valley Road, Montesano, 2 at Lantzville, B.C.
09 - 2 at Chehalis, 2 at Centralia Alpha
10 - 7 at Joyce, 1 adult at Littlerock
11 - 6 at Joyce, 16 feeding at Washington Harbor
18 - 1 at Bowerman Basin, 5 near Satsop, 8 between Oakville and Rochester,
10 at Sequim-Dungeness
19 - 4 near Enumclaw, 7 near the Maryhill Museum
20 - 23 south of Omak
21 - 2 north of Vancouver (WA)
22 - 3 at Coal Creek Park
23 - 8 over North Bend, 1 at Joyce, 1 on SR 14 on the Columbia River
24 - 1 at Joyce
25 - 2 over the Comox Valley, B.C.
26 - 1 west of Monroe, 2 at Rebecca Spit, B.C., 1 at Salt Creek, 3 over
Dungeness
27 - 1 at Stampede Pass
29 - 6 at Monroe

That's it and hope I haven't misplaced anyone this month! If there is time
to look closely (rather than from a speeding car!), turkey vultures can now
often be separated as to adult or immature. The young of this summer have
dark, not red, heads.

Keep watching and have a great rest-of-the-summer.

Diann MacRae
Olympic Vulture Study
Bothell, Washington
tvulture at halcyon.com