Hi, Tweets

Turkey vultures are on their way north to their various nesting and
summering sites. April should see a much bigger influx. I've never
done a spring study at Salt Creek, but I'm told that the vultures are
crossing to Vancouver Island from there every day or so. Here are the
March reports from Washington and Oregon for 2011:

(a late Feb. report: 1 on the 26th at Port Angeles)

03 -- 1 over Port Angeles
09 -- 1 over Priest Point Park, Olympia
13 -- 1 at Electric City; 1 at Coulee City
17 -- a kettle of 6-8+ over Port Angeles; 1 at Battle Ground; a
"trickle" by Port Angeles over several days; 2 over Port Angeles
19 -- 2 at Battle Ground; 12 over Sequim; 1 at Underwood, Skamania County
20 -- 1 over Beacon Rock State Park; 1 low over the Enumclaw Plateau;
2 over the Hood Canal Bridge; 4 over Steigerwald Lake NWR
21 -- 2 north of Silverdale
23 -- 1 between the Columbia River/Troutdale area, Oregon; 1 east of
North Bend; 2 foraging north of Carnation; 16 near Salt Creek; 3
making lazy circles in the sky north of Silverdale; conspicuous
movements all week throughout Oregon
24 -- 4 soaring over Brady
25 -- 1 at power-line level north of SeaTac; 1 over downtown Portland, Oregon
26 -- 2 over Roy; 11 between Baskett Slough and W.L. Finley NWR, Oregon
28 -- 2 circling the Theler Wetlands
30 -- 2 west of Ellensburg; 2 northwest of Ellensburg
31 -- 1 working woods' edge between Snoqualmie/North Bend; 2 over
Portland, Oregon

Thanks for the reports . . . more are coming!

Cheers, Diann

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