Hello,

I do know that Wassink took the pictures himself. I don't know where
they were taken. I don't think he would be too hard to contact through
the publisher though. It would be interesting to see where he got
information that said they breed in the Cascades and Olympics though.

My checklist of birds for the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest does
have an asterisk next to the status, which is supposed to indicate that
the breed. My checklist for North Cascades National Park however,
indicates that they are not known to breed inside the park, or inside the
Ross Lake and Lake Chelan area, even though it says that visitors to
North Cascades National Park have a better chance of seeing Black Swifts
than in any other National Park (Glacier in Montana?).


Michael Dossett
Bothell, Washington
mpdossett at juno.com

On Tue, 6 Oct 1998 16:06:43 +0000 "Kas Dumroese" <dumroese at uidaho.edu>
writes:
>> I am surprised that there is only one confirmed nesting record for
>> Washington. Wassink's Birds Of The Pacific Northwest Mountains,
>calls it
>> a rare breader in the Olympics and in North Cascades National Park.
>He
>> even has a couple of photos of birds sitting on the nest.
>
>Did Wassink take photos of birds in the Pacific NW, or are they
>just stock photos of BLSW from somewhere else?
>
>> They gotta nest in the mountains, it is probably just that no one
>ever
>> finds the nests right?
>
>Right. Or, nobody really goes looking for nests.
>
>Kas
>

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