Four (4) TUVUs over Bellingham today.


Joe Meche


-----Original Message-----
From: Diann MacRae <tvulture at vei.net>
To: Tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Wed, Apr 6, 2011 2:58 pm
Subject: [Tweeters] March 2011 TUVU report


Hi, Tweets
Turkey vultures are on their way north to their various nesting and
ummering sites. April should see a much bigger influx. I've never
one a spring study at Salt Creek, but I'm told that the vultures are
rossing to Vancouver Island from there every day or so. Here are the
arch reports from Washington and Oregon for 2011:
(a late Feb. report: 1 on the 26th at Port Angeles)
03 -- 1 over Port Angeles
9 -- 1 over Priest Point Park, Olympia
3 -- 1 at Electric City; 1 at Coulee City
7 -- a kettle of 6-8+ over Port Angeles; 1 at Battle Ground; a
trickle" by Port Angeles over several days; 2 over Port Angeles
9 -- 2 at Battle Ground; 12 over Sequim; 1 at Underwood, Skamania County
0 -- 1 over Beacon Rock State Park; 1 low over the Enumclaw Plateau;
over the Hood Canal Bridge; 4 over Steigerwald Lake NWR
1 -- 2 north of Silverdale
3 -- 1 between the Columbia River/Troutdale area, Oregon; 1 east of
orth Bend; 2 foraging north of Carnation; 16 near Salt Creek; 3
aking lazy circles in the sky north of Silverdale; conspicuous
ovements all week throughout Oregon
4 -- 4 soaring over Brady
5 -- 1 at power-line level north of SeaTac; 1 over downtown Portland, Oregon
6 -- 2 over Roy; 11 between Baskett Slough and W.L. Finley NWR, Oregon
8 -- 2 circling the Theler Wetlands
0 -- 2 west of Ellensburg; 2 northwest of Ellensburg
1 -- 1 working woods' edge between Snoqualmie/North Bend; 2 over
ortland, Oregon
Thanks for the reports . . . more are coming!
Cheers, Diann
Diann MacRae
lympic Vulture Study
2622 - 53rd Avenue S.E.
othell, WA 98021
vulture at vei.net
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