At Rocky Point (Vancouver Island), between 1200 and 1500 vultures were
hanging out until October 4. They may have left that day as only a handful
were present on October 5.

Michael G. Shepard
Orca Technologies International Inc.
5325 Cordova Bay Road, Suite 211
Victoria, BC V8Y 2L3
(250) 658-4844 telephone
(250) 658-0084 fax
mgs at orcatec.com

-----Original Message-----
From: G&T Pelletier [SMTP:greg at halcyon.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 1999 6:40 PM
To: Tweeters
Subject: Olympic Vulture Study, Salt Creek County Park

Yesterday (10/4) Tammy and I spent the day with Diann MacRae at her Turkey
Vulture study site at Salt Creek County Park. We had great weather. Since
Diann's last message to Tweeters on 9/28 she has counted about 600-700 more
Turkey Vultures crossing the Strait of Juan de Fuca. This makes a total of
about 1400 so far this season. While we were there we counted 67 TUVU and 2
Northern harriers cross over.

Greg Pelletier
Olympia, WA
greg at halcyon.com