|> From: skipr at teleport.com (Skip Russell)
|> Subject: Re: More on Black Swifts
|>
|> Bryan Gates" wrote:
|> >The records from Cape Flattery are of interest. If specific dates of
|> >sightings are available, I would appreciate them. They may shed some light
|> >on spring movements of BLSW onto Vancouver Island. Could it be that these
|>
|> I've seen Black Swifts there a few times. Here are two records I can put my
|> hands on at the moment:
|> 2 birds on Aug 23, 1982, at a clearcut about 1.5 miles SW of Neah Bay;
|> and 2 birds on June 26, 1993 at the town of Ozette.

I thought the original question was more about spring migration, but FWIW,
I was on the very tip of Cap Flattery on Aug 28, 1989, and saw my lifer
Tufted Puffin, below and my lifer Black Swifts were screeching above me.

Daan Sandee sandee at cmns.think.com
Mountain View, CA 94041