Hi, We just saw a flock of 30 or so fly south over our house in West
Seattle. Wow! Amazing! I just checked Tweeters to see if I was losing my
mind! That would have been a flock of 30 or so around 4:30 p.m. on October
9.

Janeanne Houston
West Seattle, near Lincoln Park


> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:tweeters-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf
> Of MartIn Muller
> Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2011 1:16 PM
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Subject: [Tweeters] Turkey Vultures on Whidbey Island Oct 8
>
> Greetings tweeters,
>
> A friend who lives on Whidbey Island called last night to
> tell me about seeing "several" groups of 20-50 Turkey
> Vultures near Midland, around 1 PM on sunny Saturday.
> Around 2 PM when she arrived near her home (southeast of
> Useless Bay on Whidbey I.) she noticed another kettle of 20-30 birds.
>
> She didn't watch long enough to determine if they were
> circling up and peeling off to the south (my question to
> her), but she did say that with her binoculars she could tell
> that none of the "faces" she saw had the red of the adults.
> In other words a lot of young of the year.
>
>
> Martin Muller, Seattle, WA
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