Port Townsend (Fort Worden), right?

Yes!! I saw them over my neighborhood. It took a while to process what I was seeing because it was so unusual. Very cool. When I saw them there were maybe 15 or so, but still a lot.

Teresa Michelsen
Port Townsend

From: Tweeters <tweeters-bounces at mailman11.u.washington.edu> On Behalf Of mary hrudkaj
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Subject: [Tweeters] Turkey Vultures on Saturday in Port Townsend

My sister from Port Orchard visited this morning. She said this past Saturday around 10:30 or show when they were at Fort Worden in Port Orchard there was a kettle of at least 50 Turkey Vultures rising on thermals over Fort Worden. She said they were still fairly low and still rising but didn't see them head away from there. One can assume they were heading north.

It seems a bit late for that many vultures to still be on the move but who knows. Maybe the eating was good wherever they came from.

Yesterday, Sunday, I saw four circling just south of Hwy 3 just north of Belfair. I doubt they were still migrating as they kept circling back to earth then up again. Unfortunately I heard there was a suicide (hanging) found in that immediate area a couple weeks ago and just found by a survey crew.

On an up-note. I saw the earliest new fawn yesterday morning here in our subdivision. I had come around a corner and a doe was walking across the road when out of the brush the doe had come from was a very wobbly legged newborn fawn. I stopped so it could get across the road, which it did with some difficulty (that's how new it was) before plopping down in the grass just off the asphalt. It was very small so might have been a premie. It was the smallest fawn I've ever seen. How appropriate for it to have been Mother's Day.

Mary Hrudkaj
Belfair/Tahuya
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