<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px;" class="">This is a re-post of Diann MacRae's November 23 message, sharing her data on Turkey Vultures and their movements. Thank you, Diann.</span></div><div style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;" class="">Hi, Tweets - my, where does the time go? Some interesting sightings plus a lot of single sightings all up and down from British Columbia through Oregon. I try just to include local reports plus a few interesting ones from ebird. Sounds like a normal migration year all around. Thanks for the great reports.<br class=""> </div><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;" class=""><u class="">SEPTEMBER</u></div><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;" class="">No date, just Sept: two turkey vultures in a Stanwood pasture, Snohomish County.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;" class="">25 -- 209 turkey vultures at Sooke-Whiffin Spit Park, B.C.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;" class=""> </div><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;" class=""><u class="">OCTOBER</u></div><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;" class="">01 -- Three turkey vultures over Shine Road/Squamish Harbor, Jefferson County in late morning; four near Lynden in a loose kettle with ravens and a harrier, seemed interested in a corn field being harvested; one turkey vulture at the weekly walk at the Billy Frank Jr Nisqually NWR, Thurston County.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;" class=""> </div><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;" class="">02 -- Seven+ waiting for warm air in tall trees near the lake at Marymoor Park, Redmond, King County, weather pleasant; first time with vultures in the trees; all days with 5+ vultures have been between 21 Sept and 06 Oct.; 54 turkey vultures seen at Cassimer Bar, Okanagon County roosting in large trees and on the river bank feeding.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;" class=""> </div><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;" class="">03 -- 350 turkey vultures at the Sea Scout Base, Multnomah County, Oregon.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;" class="">04 -- 550 seen from Race Rocks, British Columbia (photos); 23 at the Sechelt Airport, Wilson Creek, Sunshine Coast, B.C.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;" class="">05 -- 75 seen over the Lyre Conservation Area, Clallam County.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;" class="">09 -- 29 at Sooke-Whiffin Spit Park, B.C.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;" class="">11 -- 25 at William O. Finley NWR, Cabell Marsh, Benton County, Oregon.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;" class="">13 -- 80 turkey vultures at the Jackson Bottoms Wetland Preserve, Washington County, Oregon.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;" class="">22 -- One at Nanoose Estuary/Bay, Nanaimo, B.C.; one over Lake Union, Seattle, King County.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;" class="">29 -- Four at Friday Harbor, San Juan County, <i class="">ca</i> noon.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;" class=""> </div><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;" class="">Sorry this is so late - we lost our internet for almost a week due to a tree falling on the cable, etc. Thanks again for the reports and have a great Thanksgiving.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;" class=""> </div><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;" class="">Cheers, Diann</div><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;" class=""> </div><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;" class="">Diann MacRae<br class="">Olympic Vulture Study<br class="">22622 - 53rd Avenue S.E.<br class="">Bothell, WA 98021<br class=""><a href="mailto:tvulture@gmx.com" class="">tvulture@gmx.com</a></div></body></html>