Hi, Tweets

A bit late, but here's the May report for turkey vulture sightings.
Following are turkey vulture reports from British Columbia, Washington, and
Oregon for May 2004:

01 -- 1 near Raymond; 2 soaring near Fall City
02 -- 2 at Rice Bar, Garfield County; 1 with 2 adult bald eagles in Maple
Ridge, B.C.; 4 at the Julia Butler WR, 4 others in the area; 1 at Knob
Hill, Vancouver Island, B.C.
03 -- 13 kettling over Anacortes
04 -- 2 soaring over Fall city; 2 over Tollgate Farms near North Bend; 1
over Sammamish; 2 near Dillworth on Vashon; 1 over Vashon town; 1 over
Bowerman Basin
05 -- 1 over Bainbridge near Hyla School
06 -- 1 over Sammamish
08 -- 1 at Nisqually NWR; 7 along Hwy 12; 11 along N. Blockhouse Road; 9
along the Brady Loop Road; (?) over plowed and misty fields in Elma; 1 over
Vashon Island; 5 at the River 'S' Unit at Ridgefield NWR; 1 at Rooney Lake,
Vancouver Island, B.C.; 1 at De Boville Slough, Coquitlam, B.C.
09 -- 6-8 sunning in the trees of the Neawanna Wetland Preserve; 2 just
north of Lake Ontario/ 50km east of Toronto (see - tweeters are everywhere
looking at vultures!); 1 near Coupeville on Whidbey Island being bombed by
a blackbird; (?) overhead along the Bethel Ridge Road; (?) at the Beaver
Ponds at Nanoose Bay
10 -- 11 soaring over the Chumstick Highway; 7 kettling over the Penticton
Airport , B.C.
11 -- 10 rising in the vicinity of Codd Island in Pitt Meadows, B.C.
12 -- 4 in the Campbell Lake area, B.C.; 1 near the Eve River hill,
Vancouver Island, B.C.; 1 at the Sayward hill brake check, Vancouver
Island, B.C.
13 -- 1 in the Grant Narrows area of Pitt Meadows, B.C.; 10 in a dead tree
scanning their fiefdom between Hope and Agassiz, B.C.
14 -- 3 cleaning up a "yummy, smelly seal" on the beach at Gibsons, B.C.; 7
in a dispute with 3 ravens near Duvall; 2 soaring above the river near
Monroe; 3 west of Hoquiam
15 -- 1 circling close to the ground near Cosco in Port Coquitlam, B.C.; 14
along the Brady Loop Road; 18 along the Wenzel Slough Road; 18 along Dunlap
Road; 2 over Ellensburg; 1 along the Nooksack River; 1 near Minnie Lake,
B.C.; 1 overhead at Exit 46/I-5; 1 at Gower Point, B.C.; 1 over the Iller
Creek CA, Spokane County; 1 north of Spokane
16 -- 1 very high on thermals over the Seattle I-90 lid; 1 north of
Woodlawn; 1 south of Vader; 2 at Boston Bar, B. C.; 1 at Sargeant's Bay,
B.C.; 3 near Sechelt, B.C.
17 -- 5 hunting over T27N, R44E, S35, SWSE!; 3 hunting along the Spokane
River; 1 west of Gibson's, B.C.; 1 near Hoquiam
19 -- 2 at Reifel Bird Sanctuary, B.C.; 1 sitting in a tree at Gower Point,
B.C.
20 -- 13 coming up out of the trees on the steep slopes down into Newaukum
Creek near Enumclaw; 1 over Gower Point, B.C.; 2 over Smith Prairie,
central Whidbey Island
21 -- 1 on a freeway ramp in Eugene, Oregon; 9 at Malheur NWR; 1 over Gower
Point, B.C. (twice); 1 over Lower Crab Creek Road
22 -- 1 near Lake Easton SP; 1 over the Hoquiam River; 1 near Grass Creek;
13 south of Rennie Road
23 -- 7 along Dunlap road (with additional single birds nearby); 1 over the
CP Rail yard, B.C.; 1 (several times) over Gower Point, B.C.
24 -- 1 over the CP Rail yard, B.C. (maybe the same bird on a regular
schedule); 4 over the west field at Reifel Bird Sanctuary, B.C.; 3 west of
Hoquiam
25 -- (?) along US12; 1 at Rock Creek Road, Klickitat County; 1 between
Rock Creek and Bickleton; 2 south of Mabton; 1 near Lime Kiln SP
26 -- (?) near Vernon, B.C.; 1 near Lime Kiln SP; 3 at Grass Creek; 1 at
Reifel Bird Sanctuary, B.C.
29 -- 9 circling over Rennie Road, B.C.; 2 at Eastern Columbia Gorge,
Rowland Lake
30 -- 32 sitting in a field near Rannie Road, Pitt Meadows, B.C.;
31 -- 3 west of Montesano; 1 west of the Wynoochee River

Thanks for your sightings; they are very welcome! Where you see (?), it
means no number was given and probably means 1-2. Seems like a few more
larger groups this late spring, or more watchers noticing. These birds are
neat to notice, so don't forget to look up.

Cheers, Diann

Diann MacRae
Olympic Vulture Study
22622 - 53rd Avenue Southeast
Bothell, Washington, USA
tvulture at vei.net
http://users.vei.net/tvulture/





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