Subject: March 2004 turkey vulture report
Date: Apr 1 15:16:56 2004
From: Diann MacRae - tvulture at vei.net



Hi, Tweets

Turkey vultures are arriving in good fashion now with reports from all
over. April should be the really big month, and then they'll settle down to
nesting duties.

Reports for March 2004 from British Columbia and Washington:

01 - 1 east of I-5 south of Castle Rock
07 - 1 at Rock Creek, Klickitat County
09 - 1 near Scatter Creek Rest Stop
12 - 1 soaring over farmland east of Sedro-Woolley; 3 at Qualicum Bay, B.C.
13 - 2 moving over the south end of Bainbridge Island; 1 over the middle of
Vashon Island
14 - 5 sharing a thermal with 2 ravens, a bald eagle, and a redtail over
Puget Island, Wahkiakum County; 2 at the north end of Bainbridge; 2 above
Hwy. 19 at Nanoose Bay, B.C.; 1 on the Vernon Commonage, B.C.
15 - 1 over Bainbridge Island
16 - 3 near the Ring-Dike area at Nisqually NWR
17 - 1 at the mouth of the Skokomish River, Hood Canal; 31 sitting in trees
in Railroad Bridge Park, Sequim
18 - 1 over the Bellevue Home Depot
19 - 1 flying over the Mill Creek Post Office; 1 flying east southwest of
Littlerock; 2 soaring over the courthouse in North Vancouver, B.C.
20 - 1 at the River S Unit, Ridgefield NWR; 6 near the Brady Loop Road; 15
in southern Mason County
21 - 13 seen from the Brady Loop Road complex; 2 at Steigerwald Lake NWR; 1
flying over Renton; 1 at Deer Lake Park, Burnaby, B.C.; 3 in trees on the
Miller Peninsula; 1 over Llama Lake; 1 over central Bainbridge; 1 east of
Easton feasting on roadkill
22 - 1 flying over Fircrest; 27 heading west in small groups over eastern
Port Angeles; 14 soaring over the Old Olympic Hwy, Sequim, heading west; 1
feeding on an old coyote carcass in the Wenas Valley; 1 over the Purdy
cut-off road, Mason County
23 - 4 overhead near Surrey, B.C.; 1 south of Omak
24 - reported from around Latzville and south Nanaimo, B.C. [no numbers]; 1
cruising over the Chinook Valley, Pacific County; 3 along Wenzel Slough
Road; 2 at Satsop; 5 along Brady Loop Road; 1 in Richland
25 - 1 soaring over grasslands east of Winfield, B.C.
27 - 1 along Brady Loop Road; 1 over Vance Creek County Park; 1 over
Sequim; (?) at Castlegar, B.C.
28 - 1 along the Wenzel Slough Road; 6-7 floating overhead at the mouth of
the Skokomish; 1 over Charlie Wright's house; 2 at Lantzville watching
grass-rakers; 2 south of Oroville; 1 east of Oliver, B.C.
29 - 1 at Naramata, B.C.; 6 flying over Penticton, B.C.
30 - 1 over June Springs Road, B.C.; 2 circling at tree top level in West
Olympia
31 - 1 soaring over the Sechelt Airport, B.C.; 6 along Ranee Road in Pitt
Meadows

As always, thanks so much for your continued support; vulture reports are
always appreciated.

Vulture note: Watch for the California quarter issue later in the year -
it will have North America's largest vulture on it!!

Cheers, Diann

_____________________
Diann MacRae
Olympic Vulture Study
22622 - 53rd Avenue S.E.
Bothell, WA 98021
tvulture at vei.net
http://users.vei.net/tvulture/





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