I had an adult TV at the north end of Columbia NWR this afternoon. I had
never seen one during the summer (June-August) within 50 miles of here.

Randy Hill
Othello
----- Original Message -----
From: "Diann MacRae" <tvulture at halcyon.com>
To: <Tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 10:21 p
Subject: June 2001 Turkey Vulture report - long


> Hi, Tweets
>
> This will be the month to look for vulture youngsters! They have the dark
> greyish heads, not red. Evidently turkey vultures are doing well or I've
> got you all spotting them more, because reports are good. I appreciate all
> of the comments, especially on behavior, that are sent along with the
> numbers. It's giving us a pretty good overview of turkey vulture
> demographics in the Pacific Northwest. While this started as a specific
> migration study, it has branched into a biological scan of the turkey
> vulture's many characteristicss. Keep those reports coming!!
>
> Turkey vultures reported for the month of June 2001 for Washington,
British
> Columbia, and Oregon:
>
> actually, here's a May report, submitted late: 60 turkey vultures (!!)
were
> counted on the Olympic Peninsula Audubon Society's Bird-a-thon on 12 May .
> . . now, back to June
>
> 02 -- 1 at Ridgefield NWR; 2 at Easton; 1 south of Wanapum Dam; 2 at
> Robinson Canyon; 2 north of Liberty; 1 circling Florence, Oregon; 1 at
> Swawilla Basin
> 03 -- 3 at Liberty; 4 west of Easton; 2 at Grant Narrows RP in Pitt
> Meadows, B.C.
> 04 -- 10 near the Port Angeles airport; 1 near Kalama; 1over the Fraser
> River near Katz, B.C.
> 05 -- 1 soaring over the Manastash Ridge Trail; 1 at Gibsons, B.C. ; 5
> soaring about, that didn't seem to have anywhere important to go - near
> Naches Pass; 1 at Barnston Island Ferry, B.C.; 12 east of Cle Elum and
> heading west
> 06 -- 2 at Mt. Baker; 2 soaring over the eastern edge of Ridgefield NWR
> 07 -- 1 over the southern end of Lummi Island; 1 over Bell Island; 1 high
> over Spieden Island; 10 at Nolte State Park; 8 east of the intersection of
> 203/Ben Howard Road
> 08 -- 1 at Saddle Mountain SP, Oregon
> 09 -- 1 kiting in a stiff wind over Sumas Prairie east of Abbotsford; 8
> near Leavenworth; 2 in Kittitas County; 2 at Liberty; 2 at Teanaway; 2 at
> Blyn; 1 west of Sequim; 5 roosting on exposed stumps on a clearing
hillside
> near Hoko-Ozette Road; 1 northwest of Littlerock; 3 between Cle Elum and
> Ellensburg; 1 over the Sechelt Airport, B.C.; 1 in Roberts Creek, B.C.
(one
> hopes not swimming)
> 10 -- 1 at Hoko-Ozette Road; 6 between MP 38/39 Clallam County; 1 near
Salt
> Creek; 5 at mp 54 Clallam County; 8 at Kitchen-Dick Road, Sequim; 3
> possibly from Vancouver Island - spotted quite high upon arriving at the
> mainland; 3 near SR 104, Jefferson County; 10 from the Matsqui Trail area,
> B.C.
> 11 -- 7 at Brownsmead, Oregon; 2 over Leavenworth; 8 circling just south
of
> Discovery Bay; 5 at Gospel Rock, B.C.
> 12 -- 1 near Hwy 1/Boundary Road, B.C.
> 13 -- 1 very high southwest of Littlerock; 1 west of Gibsons
> 14 -- 4 over Ellensburg; 1 on telephone pole on Dodson Road; 9 swooping
> over Cays Road
> 15 -- 6 at the debris trap at Ruby Creek, B.C.; 5 at Camas; 2 near Cape
> Horn; 3 over the Rowena Plateau, Oregon; 1 (or more?) at the top of Dalles
> Mountain
> 16 -- 2 east of Salt Creek; 5 along SR 112; 5 at intersection of 112/133
> Clallam; 1 at Diamond Point Road Jefferson; 1 adult sharing lunch with a
> raven south of Port Angeles; 1 at Padilla Bay Preserve; 5 at Maryhill
State
> Park (the ranger comments that 75 vultures roost in the park grove; others
> report 25 as an average);
> 17 -- 2 at the Kalama exit I-5; 1 over Woodland exit I-5; 2 flying east
> across Hales Pass - Lummi Island to the mainland; 1 on the ground near a
> bird feeder on the Saanich Peninsula, B.C.; 2 near Victoria, B.C.; 1 over
> Littlerock
> 18 -- 1 over mid-San Juan Island; 3 at Reifel Refuge; 5 on Grantham's
> Beach, B.C. - 4 sitting on the beach, the 5th sitting on a snag.
> 19 -- 1 swooping around outside of Eatonville; 1 over North Surrey, B.C.;
4
> near Grindstone Harbor, Orcas Island; 1 over West Sound, Orcas Island; 2
> perched in roadside trees near Pitt Meadows; from 2-4 seen regularly in
the
> Lantzville (west of Nanaimo), B.C. area
> 20 -- 7 headed from Secret Cove toward Pender Harbour, B.C., could see
some
> red heads; 1 "herd" of TV's between Poulsbo/Lofall (at least 20)
> 21 -- 1 at jcn hwys 14/97 Klickitat County; 2 west of the Maryhill Museum;
> 6 west of Rowland Lake; 1 adult flapping south along a cliff at Ebey's
> Landing, Whidbey Island; 1 north of Powell River
> 22 -- 4 near the 3 Crabs in Sequim, 3 trying to make themselves look like
> Harriers. All were adults; 1 playing in the wind over Gibsons, B.C.;
> 23 -- 1 zig-zagging southwest of Littlerock; 1 west of Gibsons, B.C.; 1 at
> Mixal Lake, B.C.; 1 west of Cashmere; 3 at Cashmere; 1 north of East
> Wenatchee; 1 near Fort Okanogan; 1 at Omak; 1 west of Republic; 3 outside
> Aberdeen; 1 over Nisqually
> 24 -- 3 circling over Saturna Island, B.C.; 2 over Cameron Lake Road
Chelan
> County
> 25 -- 1 at treetops south of the Olympia Airport; 1 at Leavenworth; 2 at
> junction of Hwys 97/10; 2 at Easton; 6 over a house
> 26 -- 2 west of Tiger
> 27 -- 1 soaring over a Dairy Queen in beautiful downtown Haney, B.C.
> 28 -- 5 circling with a Bald Eagle near Cranberry Lake at the edge of
> Powell River, B.C.
> 29 -- 2 north of Stanwood; 1 hatch year bird at Brownsmead, Oregon; 1
> pirouetting on the left wing south of Olympia Airport; 1 north of Sequim;
1
> sitting in a tree and 1 circling so low that a pet Schnauzer, Sgt.
Schultz,
> was trying to jump up and catch it - this on Gambier Island, B.C.
> 30 -- 4 just before Buckley; 4 at Conboy NWR
>
> As always, thanks so much for your reports.
>
> Cheers, Diann
> ___________________________
> Diann MacRae
> Olympic Vulture Study
> 22622 - 53rd Avenue S.E.
> Bothell, WA 98021
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