Hi, Tweets
September is coming up and along with early October that is the main window that our Pacific northwestern turkey vultures head south with a few wintering over in isolated spots. Thank you for reports sent in; they are always appreciated. I put a few e-bird reports in but they don’t give much information so I’m not happy with that.
Following are sightings of August turkey vultures in Washington, British Columbia and Oregon:
August
02 – Two turkey vultures at Neah Bay.
03 – Three at Nestucca Bay NWR, Two Rivers Trail, Tillamook, OR.
04 – Five at Steamboat Rock State Park; Three at San Juan Island NHP, English Camp.
06 – Two over Discovery Bay, Jefferson County,
07 – Two over Discovery Bay, Jefferson County – (maybe the same ones?).
11 – A tagged turkey vulture at Bonge Beach access road, Grayland, 0930 – plus at least 20 more on the beach. (Photos accompanied the report and I reported it/them to Dan Varland.)
20 – 17 at the Hope Sewage Lagoon, BC.
21 – 15 in the Cowichan Vally, BC.
23 – One soaring over I-5 south of 172nd St. NE, Marysville; Six sitting in a newly mown field along Mountainview Rd. west of Ferndale in the afternoon; 10 turkey vultures over Hwy 2 at Davenport.
27 – A kettle of 11 turkey vultures over the Fraser River by Haney BC.; Several hanging around all week near Maple Ridge, BC (perhaps a nearby roost); 12 at Conconully State Park.
28 – Six at Kootenay Boundary, BC.
30 – Eight at Rocky Point Observatory, BC; Four at Denman WMA, Hall Unit, Jackson, OR.
I’ll do a fall migration report because the numbers are always interesting, but if there is little interest in this type of report from those on Tweeters, perhaps I should stop. Let me know what you think. I know how unwanted email can clog things up.
Thanks again for the reports.
Cheers, Diann
Diann MacRae
Olympic Vulture Study
22622 - 53rd Avenue S.E.
Bothell, WA 98021
tvulture at gmx.com