Subject: Re: Vaux's swifts
Date: May 22 12:28:40 1996
From: salix - salix


To help tie loose ends...

Burt Guttman wrote:
>Someone with more definite information may have to correct me, but I'm
>quite sure the swifts were reported going into a different chimney, in
>the same neighborhood, last spring.

I was alerted to a Vaux's Swift phenomenon at a house on Capitol Way between
17th and 18th avenues during May 1994. They were present 17 May; I counted
34 going down the chimney(s) on 18 May and "maybe 10" on 20 May. Through
early summer, I saw two to four swifts flying around each time I was in the
neighborhood (often). In late July and mid-August, numbers appeared to
increase, with counts jumping to 15 and 30.
--
Scott Richardson
NE Seattle
salix at halcyon.com