Made a brief excursion yesterday into Esmeralda Basin. Snow continuous at 4700 feet, 1-2 feet.
Flowers: Mostly Glacier Lily and Spring Beauty. Boggy area at 4500 feet with Shootingstar and Marsh Marigold.
Birds: Turkey Vultures ( Teanaway River road) Western Tanager, Clark's Nutcracker ( a flock).
You bet that is a turkey vulture, and great job capturing it on film too!
While there are not as many up here as what I enjoyed as a kid on the farm in Oregon, I see them frequently. Each year there is a good group of 4-9 of them here in the Snoqualmie Valley that are fairly common sights. I almost never drive the Easton-to-Cle Elum stretch of I-90 w/o seeing them. I believe there are known nesting sites on the cliffs visible from I-90 on Easton Ridge also.
My memories of these critters goes back again to my years growing up in Oregon. We'd burn our ryegrass fields each summer/fall and the days after burning a field there would at times be 25-30 of them circling over the field looking for all of the dead mice to snack on! Mmmmm...cooked meat!
Alan, two years agos, at almost the same area, we observed these vultures circling over a roadkill (deer). They have to be indigenous to the Teanaway River valley.
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