Gene and tweets,

Oops, and a big apology to all of you. I must have hit a wrong key
earlier and not noticed when I said there were 9 confirmed BBA blocks for
Black Swift. There is only one (which is still one more than none).
There are several in the possible/probable category, but only one
confirmed. Sorry, but the database doesn't say how it was confirmed,
you'd have to ask Phil Mattocks for that (he'd probably have to dig up
the card). The *only* confirmed location for Black Swift nesting in WA
is (drumroll please)...

T40N R10E SE in Whatcom Co.

It's probably Terry Wahl's record, so you might try asking him, too.

Andy, thanks for the landscape-scale synopsis of BLSW habitat, that
description helps.

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Mike Smith
Univ. of Washington, Seattle
whimbrel at u.washington.edu
http://salmo.cqs.washington.edu/~wagap/mike.html