Subject: mid-Sept to mid-Oct turkey vulture reports
Date: Oct 26 19:28:51 2000
From: Diann MacRae - tvulture at halcyon.com


Hi, Tweets

Following is a continuation of the report I posted in mid-September. It
continues through October and includes all additional reports to date. Any
further reports would be much appreciated. These reports are only the
sightings I get from observers across the northwest. I will post a short
report of this fall's Olympic Vulture Study in a day or so. Many thanks to
all of you who have so kindly sent me reports throughout the year. Don't
stop! Do they winter in your area, per chance??

Following are turkey vulture reports for British Columbia, Washington, and
Oregon from September and October 2000:

September
01 -- 1 at Gower Point, Gibsons, B.C.
02 -- 2 over Gibsons
06 -- 3 between Naselle-Roseburg
07 -- 1 near Camano Island bridge
08 -- 2 north of Camano bridge; 1 west of Mount Vernon
09 -- 2 north of Stanwood
10 -- 2 circling Obstruction Point with a golden eagle; 10 at Port William
CP, B.C.
12 -- 1 at Cle Elum; 4-5 over Prospect Lake, B.C. all summer; 2 over Bethel
Ridge; 5 at Bob Heirman Wildlife Park
13 -- 2 east of Gresham, Oregon
14 -- 5 coming in off the strait at Salt Creek CP; 4 between
Naselle-Roseburg; 1 perched in a tree along the Hoko River; 1 west of Mount
Vernon
15 -- 2 east of Burns, Oregon; 30+ over Malheur NWR, Oregon; 1 at Willapa
Bay NWR; 1 at Sequim-Port Angeles Hwy101; 12 at Point No Point
16 -- 3 circling Newcastle Island, B.C.; 4 at Lyle; 3 at Dallesport; 2 at
Horsethief Lake SP; 6 at Maryhill Museum; 7 at Maryhill SP; 4 along dirt
road to John Day Dam; 6 at MP106 on Hwy14; 3 at Goldendale; 4 along
Woodland Road; 6 along Bickleton Hwy; 2 at Sundale; 2 over Agassiz, B.C.
17 -- 1 at Hwys 101/104; 1 on a raccoon carcass at Newcastle; 1 at MP122 on
Hwy14; 9 at Lyle; 5 at Bingen; 2 at Klickitat-Skamania County line; 4 at
Home Valley; 5 at Stevenson; 3 at Beacon Rock SP; 4 at North Bonneville; 7
at Mount Pleasant; 5 at Washougal; 2 at Camas; 2 at Vancouver; 3 at
LaCenter; 4 at Woodland
18 -- 1 at Cooper Mountain; 4 near Leavenworth
19 -- 2 at Prospect Lake, B.C.; 3 at Viaduct Flats, Saanich, B.C.
20 -- 3 south of the Detroit Reservoir, Oregon
21 -- 1 over the Stilly River; 54 over Eagle Ridge (near Salt Creek RA); 17
slowly drifting south from west of Mount Vernon; 1 at Mount Vernon
22 -- 14 over Point Roberts; 3 over Marine Drive-49th in Vancouver, B.C.; 1
adult circling over Littlerock; 1 adult hunting near the Yakima-Columbia
confluence; 1 soaring high over Cle Elum and Roslyn; 1 at Brady; 1 at
Mission, B.C.; 1 at Hatzic, B.C.; 1 at the Magellan Tunnels, B.C.
23 -- 2 over Rithets Bog, Victoria, B.C.; 4 east of Ocean City; 2 at
Aberdeen; 2 at Ocosta; 4 at Montesano; 1 south of Mount Vernon
24 -- 2 at Montesano; 3 at Aberdeen; 2 at Ocosta; 6 at Tokeland; 2 at North
Cove; 2 along SR105/MP42; 1 soaring over Crescent school in Joyce; 4
circling over the Tygh Valley, Oregon
25 -- 20 over Willows Beach in Oak Bay, Victoria, B.C.; 2 somewhere (?)
26 -- 1 on north Camano Island
27 -- 1 soaring over Joyce
28 -- 3 circling over Tillicum
29 -- 18 moving south over Bellingham; 5 over Gower Point, Gibsons, B.C.
30 -- 1 at Witty's Lagoon, B.C.; 6 near Triangle Mountain, B.C.; 1 over
Gower Point with 5 redtails, all being harassed by crows, Gibsons, B.C.

October
01 -- 1 near Sequim; 1 at Nisqually NWR; 32 over Olympia heading southwest
02 -- 1 on north Camano Island
03 -- 1 near Homeacres Road, Everett
04 -- 200 at an evening roost near Merlin, Oregon; last turkey vulture for
the year at the Campbell River Airport, B.C.
12 -- 1 at Delta, B.C.
13 -- 1 at Burnaby, B.C.
15 -- 1 landed in a snag at the Green River NRA
24 -- 7 resting in a mowed hayfield south of Conway

Again, many thanks for your continuing support with turkey vulture sightings.

Cheers, Diann
___________________________
Diann MacRae
Olympic Vulture Study
22622 - 53rd Avenue S.E.
Bothell, WA 98021
mailto: tvulture at halcyon.com
http://www.halcyon.com/tvulture/