Subject: April 1999 turkey vulture report
Date: May 3 14:25:10 1999
From: Diann MacRae - tvulture at halcyon.com


Hi, Tweets

Here is the report of turkey vultures seen in Washington and British
Columbia for April, 1999:

01 - 1 near Chehalis
02 - 4 at the Electric City roost
03 - 13 at the Maryhill SP roost; 2 over Belfair; 3 over Port
Angeles/Sequim; 52 at Salt Creek; 3 near Kelso/Longview from I-5
04 - 12 at Sooke, B.C.
06 - 7 over the Samish Flats
08 - 2 west of Grand Coulee
09 - 1 between Auburn and Enumclaw
10 - 2 at Swauk Prairie; 6 west of Cashmere
11 - 2 west of Cle Elum; 7 adults sitting on posts in the vicinity of the
Raymond Airport; 2 adults west of Aberdeen; 1 at Darrington; 1 east of
Vantage; 1 west of Yakima
12 - 1 over West Vancouver, B.C.
13 - 4 near Mt. Lehman, B.C.; 1 adult sw of Littlerock
14 - 1 near McCleary/Summit
15 - 1 west of Cle Elum; 47 at Salt Creek
16 - 3 sw of Fall City; 1 at Easton; 1 eating a dead deer on Blewitt Pass
17 - 1 at North Bend; 22 between Home Valley, Skamania County and Maryhill
SP; 4 near Crow Butte SP
18 - 1 at Neck Point Park, Nanaimo, B.C.; 2 at Blewitt Pass; 7 near the
mouth of the Elwha
20 - 4 at Easton
21 - 2 east of Snoqualmie Summit
22 - 1 at Riverbend
23 - 1 nw of Burnaby, B.C.;
24 - 3 near Tokeland; 6 south of Sequim
25 - 1 over Bowerman Basin; 4 between Elma and Satsop; 1 south of Steveston
Hywy, B.C.; 2 at the Thorp exit (Ellensburg), 1 at mile marker 71, 1 at mm
44 (I-90)
27 - 13 near Montesano
28 - 18 at the mouth of the Elwha (almost Salt Creek!)
29 - 2 in Vancouver, B.C.
30 - 2 at Port Angeles; 1 over North Bend, B.C.

More sightings are always welcome.

Diann MacRae
Olympic Vulture Study
Bothell
tvulture at halcyon.com