[Tweeters] Turkey Vultures
Scott Leavens
scottleavens at gmail.com
Sun Apr 9 12:27:12 PDT 2023
Hey Jim,
I've wondered the same thing. I live in Enumclaw and seeing them around the
farms and fields is very common for most of the year. I reported the FOY
ones yesterday because since joining tweeters I've noticed a lot of
interest in them, although I haven't quite understood why.
- Scott Leavens
On Sun, Apr 9, 2023, 11:07 AM <jimbetz at jimbetz.com> wrote:
> Tweet - Tweet - Tweety Tweet,
>
> Hi all. It is quite common to see posts about TUVUs - and, it
> seems to me at
> least - they are often reported as though they are "rare" or "notable" (for
> example a FOY/FOS).
> We live about 300 feet up on a hill that faces East looking up the
> Skagit Valley.
> We see TUVU ... often. So much so that my tendency is to "just take
> long enough
> to establish if it is a TUVU or a Bald Eagle" ... and consider the ID of it
> being a TUVU as "disappointing" and at least half the time don't even
> report it
> on eBird. If it is a bald or some other raptor (usually an RTH) I almost
> always report it ... but the TUVUs are so "common" that they get dismissed
> as
> being unworthy of the time it takes to post a checklist (which is -not- a
> lot of time).
>
> And I will say that I -think- we see them pretty much all year round. I
> should just check my reports and see if this is true - my suspicion is
> that we see them in every month of the year.
> I did that - checked my reports to eBird - and in the 3 years I've
> been using eBird I see that I've seen TUVUs in every month except
> Jan and Feb. But I suspect that "I've just not reported them in those
> months rather than that I didn't see any ... ??? In fact, eBird shows
> TUVU reported in Skagit County for every week of the year except on in
> Jan and one it Dec ... so that seems to support that they are here
> year round.
> I do know that some TUVU migrate South - we saw many of them just last
> October in Veracruz, Mx. and they -seemed- to be migrating rather than
> residents. But the reports of TUVU in Skagit appear to support the
> statement that some of them, at least, do not migrate ... ???
>
> It would seem correct for me to conclude that the TUVUs are 'common'
> here in
> Skagit County ... or at least not rare.
> I am NOT discounting other people's reports. I'm wondering if the
> reason
> they are so common here is because we live in a much more rural area where
> agriculture and logging are still major industries? Or maybe it is due to
> the fact that we sit where we have a very large field of view?
>
> Anyone have any ideas about this?
> - Jim
>
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