Hi Tweeters

I'm puzzled.

We have had Western Bluebirds coming and going to a nest box for a long
time. Recently we have seen them arrive and spend significant periods of
time in the box. When both the male and female exited and left the area, I
checked the box and there are eggs. I also noticed that there were several
bright blue tail feathers sticking out one side of the nest. I then
wondered why there would be what seemed to be a number of tail feathers in
good condition. Re-opening the box I looked quickly and there appears to be
a dead male in the nest with eggs showinging on one side of it. There had
been at least two pairs ranging around the area and we had been
occassionally seeing what I assumed were both pairs as recently as
yesterday.

Any comments or suggestions?

Bob Taylor
Sumner, WA
taylorrt at msn.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Diann MacRae <tvulture at halcyon.com>
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Date: Monday, May 03, 1999 2:31 PM
Subject: April 1999 turkey vulture report


>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
>