Ray Korpi wrote:

>2) The Chapman swifts are massing further. More birds were there
>Saturday afternoon--I say afternoon because they were entering the
>chimney early in the face of the t-storms which rolled through--birds
>were going into the chimney around 5:00. As many swifts as were at the
>chimney were along the ridge between Chapman and Sauvie Isalnd. On the
>Isalnd, Barn Swallows were moving in big numbers and a GReater Yellowlegs
>was heard at Coon Point. Not much was active in the face of the storms.
>On Sunday, the Swifts were not entering the chimney early (must be able
>to predict the weather better than the meteorologist in Portland who were
>predicting possible t-storms again).

You almost had me going on this one. Probably few people have even heard
of Chapman's Swift (_Chaetura chapmani_), also known as Dark-breasted
Swift, widely but poorly known from northern South America. From your
subject title, I thought a Chapman's Swift had been reported from
Ridgefield--not that anyone will ever know it if one *does* turn up there,
as it looks like a dark version of a Chimney Swift.

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