>Fellow Tweetsters, I was hoping someone else was in the vicinity last
>Saturday morning to identify the mystery birds: The silhouettes (all I
>saw) looked like swallows, but the wings were longer and the curve "broke"
>closer to the body than swallow wings--that was the jizz I saw at 55 mph
>on the freeway with no place and no time to stop.
>
>I hope some of you ace birders were at the Everett sewage ponds or Spencer
>Island and looking west, toward I-5, at about 8-8:30 A.M. last Saturday.
>If so, did you see anything like what I described, flying over the
>freeway? I'm wondering if they were swifts.
>Thanks in advance! --Anna Coles, Seattle, WA acoles at u.washington.edu

They sure sound like swifts to me, Anna. If they looked big, they were
probably Black Swifts, which are often seen at this time of year over the
Everett sewage ponds.

Dennis Paulson, Director phone 206-756-3798
Slater Museum of Natural History fax 206-756-3352
University of Puget Sound e-mail dpaulson at ups.edu
Tacoma, WA 98416