Hello, I'm new to Tweeters (you may remember my request for info for an article I was writing a few weeks ago) and only a casual birder, so please forgive me if this isn't the right sort of thing to post here, but I just saw an amazing bird event I wanted to share. I'm visiting my sister in Portland, OR, and last evening she took me to see the Swifts at the Chapman School, where they stop on their southward migration. Wow!! Maybe this is old news to others, but I had certainly never seen anything like it -- over 1,000 swifts swarming and then funneling into an abandoned chimneystack at dusk. A local expert informed me the numbers will peak in a week or two.

Jennifer Scott
Bainbridge Island, WA (but tuning in from Portland)