[ucbnet] Fw: Sorry girls, you should have been here! CALIFORNIA CONDORS IN PLEASANT GROVE

[Joel and Kathy Beyer]

The total current population of free-flying California Condors in the
Vermillion Cliffs release area is 61.  Might I suggest that the birds
seen in Pleasant Grove were more likely Turkey Vultures, and that most
news reporters know next to nothing about birds.

Joel

On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 22:19:10 -0700 (PDT) M L Rogers
<marjaleenar2002 at yahoo.com> writes:
Dear UCB'ers:
 
For anyone interested seeing them ~ if these Calif Condors are still
around early Saturday morning ~ my friends lives at:
 
1155 E 30th S
Pleasant Grove, UT 84062-2599

 Two of the condors were roosting tonight in a large tree in their yard. 
See email below.


Leena Rogers

  

Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:51:33 -0700
From: ringheimjensen at yahoo.com
Subject: Fwd: Sorry girls, you should have been here!
To: marjaleenar at hotmail.com



Note: forwarded message attached. 
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Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:48:56 -0700
From: ringheimjensen at yahoo.com
Subject: Sorry girls, you should have been here!
To: sirpa_grierson at byu.edu; marjaleenar#@hotmail.com


Sirpa and Leena:
 
Thought about you two today as I had this wonderful experience:
 
As I drove home around 6 pm I noticed a bunch of huge birds, soaring very
low close to me.  First I thought they were eagles.  A few minutes later
as I arrived home I noticed that 4 of them had landed in my tallest tree,
while  approx. 50 others had taken off and  were vaguely visible in  the
high skies. Lee immediately recognized them as California Condors. They
have a wing spread of up to 10 feet.  I got on line right away, and sure
enough he was right, they were indeed condors. It's dark now, but  2 of
them are overnighting. Later the local  news station  showed pictures of
a large group of condors flying in the sky. The reporter said they were
spotted today  flying around in our area and that they had come from
Grand Canyon. 
 
It was exhilarating.
 
Pia
 
 
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