Hi, Tweets

Just a heads up for those of your who are interested. A kettle of 20
turkey vultures was seen over the Elwha last Friday. That's in the
area where I usually do my migration monitoring project, so they are
probably early migrants.

As a refresher, last year we had 2,152 vultures pass by the Salt
Creek site in a three-week period (the third highest count). Pretty
exciting to see several hundred of these large birds come in off the
water - and almost always in "nice" weather.

So, hope you will look up and report any kettles seen in the next few
weeks. I won't be at Salt Creek this season, but hope to catch some
of the migrants over our area. Last year several people saw kettles
of a hundred or so over Seattle and the surrounding area.

If anyone would like a copy of the Excel doc listing the vultures and
all other raptors seen from the Salt Creek site since 1992, just let me know.

Look up!

Cheers, Diann

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


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