<html><head></head><body><div style="font-family: Verdana;font-size: 12.0px;"><div> </div>
<div>Hi, Tweets</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Sorry this is late but covid finally caught up with me (after two years of masks/vacs/boosters). Can't win, at times. Anyway, this is the report of sightings I have for April 2022 in Washington, Oregon and even a California sighting. By next month maybe I'll figure out ebird and have more variety.</div>
<div> </div>
<div><u>MARCH</u></div>
<div> </div>
<div>19 -- FOY turkey vilture over Anacortes, a sunny day ca. 50's tempwise; Note: the pattern in Anacortes has been single individuals in early spring, then groups circling overhear as summer weather arrives.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>
<p><u>APRIL</u></p>
</div>
<div>06 -- Two turkey vultures seen separately @ Billy Frank Jr NWR.</div>
<div>07 -- A lone turkey vulture soaring in the distance across the Sammamish River in Bothell.</div>
<div>08 -- Ten circling North Bend this morning around 0700; near Port Angeles, a group of six after a single bird; earlier three turkey vultures heading east.</div>
<div>09 -- Six in the afternoon in North Bend; FOY soaring over Lake Stevens at Hwy.9/Soper Hill Road; twelve turkey vultures landed in a cow pasture near Concrete.</div>
<div>11 -- Three at Whitehorse Park, Darrington, 10:15 and one over the Stillaguamish River at C-Post Road, Oso at 1415; dozens of turkey vultures at Red Bluff, CA soaring around and strafing low over fields.</div>
<div>20 -- Six over Hood River, Oregon; Note: Driving from Chehalis to The Dalles, 12-20 birds a day during early April with The Dalles having 4-5 birds and Hood River more of a hot spot.</div>
<div>21 -- Six turkey vultures near Lake Samish; ten circling near Van Zandt and several near Glacier; ca. 20-25 driving between Seattle and Mt. Baker; one seen while walking the Sammamish River Trail near Bothell Landing at around 1200.</div>
<div>23 -- "a few vultures" near Burlington (?).</div>
<div>24 -- One over Trafton Trailhead for Whitehorse Trail east of Arlington, ca. 1200.</div>
<div>25 -- One big black bird over West Seattle, definitely not an eagle!!</div>
<div>26 -- Four TVs circling over Hwy. 20 and March Point Rd. Intersection in Skagit County ca 1500; plus one over Eden’s Msrsh on Guemes island about 1130.</div>
<div>29 -- One turkey vulture overhead at Fobes Road dike near Snohomish ca. 0900.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Thanks so much for the great reports.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Cheers, Diann</div>
<div>
<p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri , sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="white-space: normal;"><span><span><span> D</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>iann MacRae<br/>
Olympic Vulture Study<br/>
22622 - 53rd Avenue S.E.<br/>
Bothell, WA 98021<br/>
tvulture@gmx.com</p>
</div></div></body></html>