Hi, Tweets

Turkey vultures, those airborne TV's, are sifting back into the state and
April should see the big push, i.e. some larger flocks. There are already
numbers on Vancouver Island and small flocks have been staging on the north
Olympic coast. Don't forget to look up!!

Turkey vultures reported for March 2002 from Washington, British Columbia,
and Oregon:

02 1 working the airfield near Eastsound on Orcas Island; 2 flying west
near Morse Creek, just east of Port Angeles
03 2 flying west over Port Angeles
04 1 over Bonney Lake
05 1 at the Campbell River Airport, B.C.
12 5 soaring high near Brownsmead, Oregon
15 4 wheeling northwest over McDonell Creek; 5 flying northward over
Joseph Whidbey State Park, later 1 more near the beach; 6 over Cape George,
Port Townsend; 4 near Centralia; 5 at the Julia Butler Hansen Refuge; one
at Skamokawa; 1 just east of Home Valley, Skamania County
16 1 north of Sequim
17 1 over I-90 at the 25-mile marker; 6 near Wagner Road, 2 near Meadows
Road (?); 1 at Meadows Road; 2 from Manners Road; 1 from Marble Street; 6
from Lincoln Creek Road; 9 at Scatter Creek; 2 at Mima Mounds; 5 on Puget
Island; 5 near Legacy Marsh, Lantzville, B.C.; 1 at Colwood, B.C.
18 1 at the Jefferson County Airport near Port Townsend
19 1 near silent Lake, south of Port Ludlow
20 4 over the harbor at Kingston; ca. 8 near Curtin, Oregon (I-5)
21 3 east of Crocker Lake, south of Discovery Bay; 1 over the Evergreen
State campus; 1 over Bainbridge Island
22 2 circling low over north Snohomish; 1 at the Turn Mountain Tank Farm,
Burnaby, B.C.; 1 flying along Hwy 91 in Richmond, B.C.
23 4 in Garfield County from Hwy 12; "several" at the JBH Whitetail Deer
Refuge
24 2 near Parksville, B.C.; 1 south of Dungeness Spit; 1 feeding at the
Dungeness Recreation Area; 2 east of Cle Elum; 2 at Cle Elum; 1 at East
Sooke Regional Park, B.C.; 1 at Pitt Meadows, B.C.; 1 near Pasco
25 1 from Roberts Lake, Kelowna, B.C.
26 4 circling over the northwest side of Bainbridge Island; 1 soaring
close to the ground near Maple Ridge, B.C.; "lots" on Quadra Island, B.C.
28 2 at Thetis Lake, B.C.; 1 south of Mill Bay, B.C.; 2 at Westholme,
B.C.; 2 at the Nanaimo Bypass, B.C., 5 at the head of Nanoose Bay, B.C.; 1
at the Penticton, B.C. airport
29 9 near Carnation; 1 east of Penticton, B.C.; 1 over June Springs Road, B.C.
30 4 near the upper Fraser Valley, B.C.; 1 near Onalaska; 2 in Morton; 4
over Riffe Lake near Mossyrock Dam; 2 at Ike Kinswa State Park; 1 at
Taidnapum Park; 1 over the Church Lake area; 1 south of Salem, Oregon; 1
near Beaver Creek, B.C.
31 20 just east of Port Angeles; 1 near Malahat Summit, B.C.; 1 near
Cobble Hill, B.C.; f1 near Currie Creek, B.C.; 1 near Paldi, B.C.; 17 left
their roosts on Nanoose Hill, B.C. and 3 were east of there; 2 over Bonney
Lake; 1 east of Cle Elum; 3 at Cle Elum; ca. 10 at a time along I-5 going
through central Oregon; 1 west of Hope, B.C.; 2 west of Laidlaw, B.C.; 2 at
Cheney.

Cheers, Diann
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Diann MacRae
Olympic Vulture Study
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Bothell, WA 98021
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