Hi, Tweets

Lots of reports of turkey vultures this summer. Thanks for the continued
interest in this non-endangered species. It's when a species is not
endangered is when we should study it in depth. This study is just a tiny
amount of the overall picture, but a necessary fragment. Following are
sightings for July 2005 for Washington, British Columbia, and Oregon.

01 -- Molting sub-adult wafting in figure 8's a hundred feet over the
observer's head in Littlerock; 1 feeding on a dead deer on the Mox Chehalis
Road; 1 over Surrey, B.C.
02 -- 2 near Sequim
03 -- 2 sub-adults, one molting, soaring over Littlerock
04 -- 1 over Loop Lake; 1 over the confluence of the Stehekin River and
Agnes Creek
05 -- 40-50 at the Roslyn exit
06 -- 2 at the Humptulips River bridge; 1 southbound over the Hoquiam
River; 1 at the Joyce fire station
07 -- 1 over the Silverdale ball fields; 1 at mp 98/I-5; 3 sitting on an
irrigation pipe near Washtucna; 12 seen from Dungeness Landing CP
09 -- 1 adult over the Pioneer Cemetery, North Cove; 5 south of Belfair; 1
at the Oyhut WA; 1 west of Montesano; 3 along the Brady Loop complex; 1
along the Skagit River; 1 near Corkindale Creek; 6 over a field east of
Elma; 4 at Brady; 3 at the Humptulips River
10 -- 1 over Sequim High School; 2 between Gardner and Port Townsend; (?)
at the Englishman River estuary; 1 over Joyce
11 -- 2 near the mitigation site at the Kid Valley fish hatchery; 1 at
Satsop; 2 in Central Park/Aberdeen; 4 between Hoquiam and Ocean Shores
12 -- 1 flying over North Delta
13 -- 1 at the Colony Farm in Coquitlam, B.C.; 8 flew in at treetop level
then kettled extremely high over Kid Valley fish ladder; 1 over Hell's
Crossing of the American River; 8 over the Kid Valley fish ladder
15 -- 1 near the Women's Prison at Purdy; 1 south of the prison
16 -- 2 circling just east of Randle; 2 circling over Packwood; 2 over the
Audubon campground at Wenas; 8 over Dungeness
17 -- 1 at the north end of Whidbey Island; many seen on the way to
Corvallis Oregon "skies full of turkey vultures, everywhere," most noted
was 14; 1 circling just east of Mossy Rock; (?) at Jingle Pot Marsh, B.C.;
1 over Joyce
18 -- 1 at Tokeland; 1 at OyhutWA/Ocean Shores STP; 1 south of Puyallup; 1
over Puyallup, 1 south of Graham
19 -- 1 over a field (?); 3 over Sugarloaf Mountain; 1 west of Port Angeles
20 -- 3 at a Dosewallups park; 1 soaring over Kent near a road kill fox; 1
along Deltaport Way, B.C.
21 -- 1 in a just-cut hayfield near East Olympia; 1 soaring near MP 62/I-5;
1 near Woodson, Oregon; 1 north on Hwy 101, Oregon
23 -- 1 west of Greenwater on Hwy 410; 8 roosting in two trees just west of
the Greenwater Fire Department; 2 over the Tumwater High School
24 -- 1 soaring over the east end of Sequim; (?) at the Morden Collery
Prov. Park, B.C.; 13 over Surrey, B.C.
25 -- 15 along the Big Hanaford Road near the Centralia Steam Plant; 2
flying over the Reifel Bird Sanctuary, B.C.; 2 north of Napavine for three days
28 -- 1 soaring over the Sequim Costco; 2 near Joyce; 1 flying over the
Littlerock Elementary School
29 -- 1 in the Siebert Creek area east of Port Angeles
30 -- 4-5 at Three Crabs

Thanks for the many detailed reports. It does help to know how many and
where turkey vultures were seen. A (?) means no number or site was noted.

Most young are fledged and it's getting close to pre-migration time. Keep
looking up! Your reports are important.

Cheers, Diann

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