Subject: arrival Black Swift, other migrants
Date: May 28 21:16:11 2004
From: b&pbell - bellasoc at isomedia.com


Hi Scott

Michael Hobbs reported Black Swifts over Lake Sammamish at Marymoor last
Wednesday, the 26th. The first sightings there this year.

Brian H. Bell
Woodinville WA
98072

Scott Atkinson wrote:

> Tweeters:
>
> Today while getting ready for a big trip between downpours, I noted an
> arrival BLACK SWIFT in the company of several VAUX'S over the
> Marysville pulic library. Shortly thereafter I had a second in a
> larger group of Vaux's (about 20) circling right over the house with
> swallows. As often happens with low pressure systems, the birds were
> feeding down low, just above the treetops. Seems like most years our
> first Black Swifts in the region show in mid-May; I don't recall any
> Tweeters reports yet this year, and recall that some years the first
> arrivals don't show until the last week of May or even early June.
>
> Also of note for us were one OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER, two W.
> WOOD-PEWEES, and a MACGILLIVRAY'S WARBLER, all annual here but
> uncommon and evidently migrants.
>
> Scott Atkinson
> Lake Stevens
> mail to: scottratkinson at hotmail.com
>
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