I suspect Black Swifts may also nest on or near Mt. Rainier as I've seen
them over Paradise on several occasions; perhaps also along the northern
outer coast: they used to be conspicuous in summer at Cape Flattery,
though not the last time I was out there. Note they do nest on sea
cliffs at Santa Cruz.

Gene.

On Tue, 21 Mar 1995, Michael Smith wrote:

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