Hi, Tweets

Here is the April turkey vulture report for the Pacific Northwest. Many
thanks for the sightings. Keep an eye out for nesting birds before long.
Actually, nests are very difficult to locate, but family groups will appear
later in the summer and you will be able to tell the young by the dark (not
red) heads.

Turkey vultures seen in British Columbia and Washington during April 2004:

01 - 1 east of Woodinville from the Tolt Pipeline Trail; 2 west of Hoquiam;
1 further west of Hoquiam
02 - 2 west of Easton; 2 west of Cle Elum; 3 at Cle Elum; 1 west of the
Para Ponds
03 - 1 over Meig's Marsh on Bainbridge; 1 at Bainbridge; 1 along Hwy 97,
Chelan County; 8 circling above the Hoquiam River bridges
04 - 1 at Lateral C Road; 1 at Pumphouse Road (both Yakima County); 6 along
Wenzel Slough Road; 10 along Brady Loop Road; 3 near Bowerman Basin; 1
north of the Humptulips River; 7 over Bowerman Basin; 2 at Hoquiam; 3 east
of Aberdeen; 9 perched in trees along Wenzel Slough Road + 2 in another
tree; 1 soaring over Graveyard Spit
07 - 4 at Point Roberts
09 - 7 at Saturna Island, B.C.; 3 feeding on a possum carcass on Allen Road
in Roy
10 - 7 west of Satus taking turns at a banquet; 1 near the Umtanum Creek
Trail; 6 near Satsop; 5 along the Brady Loop Road; 2 west of Montesano; 2
at Tokeland; 1 at Elma; 5 at Gowlland-Tod Provincial Park, B.C.; 2 at the
Pilchuck Tree Farm north of Arlington; 1 at Duckabush
11 - 1 just west of Othello; 2 east of Elma; 3 along Wenzel Slough Road; 8
along Brady Loop Road; (?) at McGregor Marsh, B.C.; 1 at Gardiner, near Sequim
12 - 2 near Cle Elum; 4 feeding on a road-killed deer between Bridgeport
and Leahy Junction
13 - 1 soaring over Scatter Creek south of Olympia; 2 soaring over Kalama;
1 south of Kalama
15 - 1 in Pitt Meadows
17 - 2 at Bottle Beach; 2 west of Montesano; 4 east of Elma; 1 east of
Summit Lake
18 - 6 at the Julia Butler Hansen NWR; 3 at Weir Prairie, Thurston County;
1 near Tenino; 4 at the Centralia Steam Plant; 1 at Ft. Steele, B.C.; 1
over Lake Terrell, near Ferndale
19 - 7 soaring above Nanoose Bay, B.C.; a kettle of 2 in Nanaimo, B.C.; 1
in Pitt Meadows, B.C.; 1 along the edge of Frenchman Coulee; 1 soaring over
the town of Mineral
20 - 1 at MP101/I-90
21 - 1 in Burnaby, B.C.; 2 near Boundary Road in Burnaby, B.C.
23 - 2 at Kalama
24 - 3 near Wenzel Road; 1 at Shoeweiler Road Wetlands; 7 at Ocosta; 3 near
Aberdeen; 1 near Elma;
25 - 1 southwest of Littlerock; 1 at the Nisqually NWR; 4 or 5 near ??; 2
east of Ocean Shores; 1 west of Hoquiam; 1 at Pitt Meadows; 2 at Mt.
Woodside joining the hangliders; (?) at Legacy Marsh, B.C.
26 - 3 near Crocker/South Prairie
27 - 9 flying over Sequim; 6 at Grant Narrows Park in Pitt Meadows, B.C.
28 - 1 between Duvall and Carnation; 1 teetering over I-90 east of Cle Elum
30 - 1 circling above the Evergreen State College; 1 soaring very high on a
powerful thermal southwest of Littlerock

That's about it! Again, thanks so much for all of your input, and keep looking!

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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