Wayne and all,

Re turkey locations, I reported seeing one turkeyby a poplar plantation at
NE corner of Skagit Flats the day before Thanksgiving. I thought it might
be an escaped domestic and ask if anyone knew of wild turkeys in area. Only
reply was a wisecrack posted the next day about many turkeys near
Bellingham, all without feathers.

Al Wagar
Shoreline

On 1/21/08 1:37 PM, "Wayne Weber" <contopus at telus.net> wrote:

> Elliott and Tweeters,
>
> Nice photo, but these are quite clearly WILD TURKEYS, not Turkey Vultures.
> Where exactly did you see them? There was a report on one of the Seattle TV
> news programs about 3 weeks ago about a flock of 9 Wild Turkeys that are
> living right in and around La Conner, and had held up traffic and road
> maintenance activities on occasion. I was surprised that no one on TWEETERS
> commented on it at the time.
>
> Turkeys are spreading so rapidly in Washington?in part, at least through
> releases by private citizens-that I expect they will soon be found in nearly
> every county in the state. If I am correct, they are already found in almost
> every county east of the Cascades (even in Adams County, which has no native
> forest other than riparian stands)!
>
> Wayne C. Weber
> Delta, BC
> contopus at telus.net
>
>
>
>
> From: tweeters-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu
> [mailto:tweeters-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of EHO (Elliot
> Omiya)
> Sent: January-21-08 1:02 PM
> To: Tweeters
> Subject: [Tweeters] Turkey vultures (acting like snow geese)
>
>
> I uploaded a picture of a group of turkey vultures
> <http://dwfkeq.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pq1RNZ1nFCQgj13JE0QvqSoNHmeJ9gcT4Acktbg
> 06hge1ghv6a_MpcrwYPJK2EoDqbj0f4Lw0NOMhkB0Be-yKMQ/TurkeyVulturesSkagitJan2008.j
> pg> eating on the ground in Skagit Flats last Saturday morning. Not only
> have I never seen turkey vultures this time of year, I had never seen them on
> the ground before, eating out of the field. They seemed quite unconcerned with
> me sitting in my car taking pictures, just 25 feet away.
>
>
>
> Later I got to see an adult bald eagle flush a couple thousand snow geese from
> the game reserve on Fir Island Road. The eagle flew away empty handed (er,
> clawed). There were a lot of decoys set up in various fields around Fir
> Island Road with hunters, shotguns, and dogs aready. The snow geese are
> pretty cagey though, they were all in the game reserve. :-)
>
>
>
> A good day in the flats despite the persistent rain (and some snow). I went
> up to N. Forks Road early and the eagles are basically gone from the Nooksack
> river. Last week we counted 80. This week there were barely 10. Saw just as
> many down in the flats as up at the river.
>
>
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