Scott and all:
We saw two Black Swifts at Green River Natural Resources Area (Kent
Ponds) during our monthly census on May 16, 2004. We also saw two
Vaux's Swifts. It was a cool day with low clouds. We also had a
Western Kingbird and a Willow Flycatcher that day, probably migrants.
Yours, Carol Schulz
DesMoines, WA
mailto:linusq at att.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Atkinson" <scottratkinson at hotmail.com>
To: <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 8:48 PM
Subject: arrival Black Swift, other migrants


| 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