On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, Anna Coles wrote:

> Fellow tweetsters, thanks in advance for help with the two following
> questions:
>
> 2) Is there a spot in the Olympia area where birders could watch swifts
> swirling into a chimney? I remember reading some reports from Olympia
> last Fall, but I don't know a specific location, or whether people could
> watch the action without bothering the residents (human).

Anna et al--

It was last Spring that we watched the Swift Ballet...we
were fortunate to be in some kind of weather inversion
which kept the Swift numbers up..i.e., some would arrive
and keep boosting the overall population as they
apparently weren't getting the cues they needed to
keep going..(north, I assume).. we had a bout 2 weeks
of dreary weather with terrific Swift watching and then
one day it broke out blue sky and they disappeared..

I'm not aware of a Fall concentration of Swifts in
the OLY area..

Tom