These turkey vulture sightings intrigue me. Tuesday my husband and I drove
up to Index. Along highway 2, out of Monroe, right in the area of the
roadside chapel, I spotted what I thought was a turkey vulture. This
stretch of highway 2 is where I usually see all the big birds...hawks,
eagles...there's a lot of open field along the river. I thought it was
unusual because frankly, I didn't think turkey vultures were to be found in
this area. Am I wrong? Are they more common than I thought?

Wallis Bolz

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> From: Thomas Cotner <tcotner at u.washington.edu>
> To: Ed Schulz <eschulz at gte.net>
> Cc: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Subject: Re: Fw: Turkey Vultures over Everett
> Date: Monday, September 28, 1998 11:35 AM
>
> Ed, Dianne and other Tweeters,
>
> On Saturday, around 12:10, I observed a kettle of 9 turkey vultures
flying
> low over Interlaken Park in the Capitol Hill district of Seattle. They
> were flying very low, maybe only 30-50 feet above the wooded park.
> When I first saw them, they were in two groups of 7 and 2 individuals
> separated by a few hundred yards; the groups later came together a few
> minutes later. One of the individuals was noticeably smaller than the
> others and may have been an immature (I was looking up and, in silouette,

> could not distinguish a gray head from a dark head). When they
> departed, they were heading due east to Lake Washington.
>
> Interestingly, last September, my wife noticed 7 turkey vultures on the
> roof of the Stevens School, located less than a block away from this
> location. It is possible that this was the same group.
>
> Tom Cotner
> Seattle
> On Sun, 27 Sep 1998, Ed Schulz wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > ----------
> > > From: Ed Schulz <eschulz at gte.net>
> > > To: tvulture at halcyon.com
> > > Subject: Turkey Vultures over Everett
> > > Date: Sunday, September 27, 1998 10:52 PM
> > >
> > > Saturday morning just after the fog burned off here in
> > > Everett I noticed nine Turkey Vultures in a tight circle
> > > riding a thermal up over Forest Park. Eventually they
> > broke
> > > out of the circling pattern and headed south where they
> > found
> > > another thermal, this one being about half mile from the
> > > first.
> > >
> > > Later in day while canoeing saw that the usual large flock
> > of
> > > Am. Widgeon has started to show up west of Jetty Island.
> > > Also saw five late Osprey still hanging around.
> > >
> > > Ed Schulz
> > > Everett, WA
> > > email: eschulz at gte.net
> > > phone: 425-259-6877
> > >
> > >
> >
>