Hi, Tweets

It's migration time and turkey vultures are heading north. Following
are the reports from Washington and British Columbia for March, 2006
(and a couple late ones from February):

February
24 -- 2 over Independence Road (near the Brady area)
25 -- 1 over Longview
26 -- 1 over I-5 near Vancouver

March
03 -- 7 beating their way north over Poulsbo; 1 over Port Orchard
05 -- 1 over Sequim
07 -- 1 in Nanaimo, B.C.; 1 at Eatonville (along with 5 ravens and a
juvenile bald eagle)
11 -- 1 near Silverdale
12 -- 1 adult feeding on a sharp-tailed grouse carcass ca. five miles
east of Mansfield; 2 southest of Belfair
13 -- 1 flew up from the road near Aberdeen
15 -- 2 between Kingston and Poulsbo; 1 above Nanoose Bay
16 -- 1 at Ridgefield NWR; 1 cruising south from Bowers Bluff
17 -- 2 over Coupeville
18 -- 5 over the Island Highway in Parksville; 1 near Parksville,
B.C.; 1 over the Baker Hill area
19 -- 1 at the Raymond Airport; 1 north of Spokane near Colbert
20 -- 1 west of Coupeville
21 -- 1 north of Oak Harbor; 1 above Mostar Road/Hwy 19, B.C
23 -- 2 in Garfield County; 1 near the Blakely Harbor area
24 -- 2 along Wenzel Slough Road; 1 along the eastern portion of the
Brady Loop Road; 7 over the I-90 weight station at Salmon-la-Sac; 1
over Olympia's Natural Resources Building; 1 over the I-5 Federal Way
weigh station; 19 over the center of Bainbridge Island (Suyematsu
Farm); 1 at Marymoor Park
25 -- 1 over Surrey, B.C.; 1 over Marymoor Park; 2 east of Copalis
Beach; 6 over the west side of Eagle Harbor
26 -- 3 near Eatonville; 1 north of Kelso; 1 near Calispell Lake; 2
over Cherry Valley FWA; 1 south of Grayland
27 -- 1 east of Dixie
28 -- 1 circling over Tyler. Spokane County
29 -- "during the past week . . . a few sightings" in Spokane County;
1 over Union Gap, south of Yakima
31 -- 1 at Marymoor Park; 1 between Hoquiam and Ocean Shores; 1
perched in a tree southwest of Mount Spokane

Thanks, as always, to those who report to Tweeters on their sightings
of turkey vultures. It is appreciated very much. The data base is growing!

Cheers, Diann

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