Grace and Ollie Oliver went out to Monroe and found several THOUSAND VAUX'S SWIFTS entering the chimney, between about 6:50 and 7:30 if I remember correctly. He recommended that I drop everything tomorrow night and rush over to see the spectacle.

On an unrelated note, Grace and Ollie also reported a COMMON NIGHTHAWK at Marymoor Park, Redmond, King, on Friday, 9/17. This is a new bird for the park list (#176) and is the 4th new species in the last 30 days! (We had Common and Black Terns in late August, and Lapland Longspur on 9/15-9/17)

== Michael Hobbs
== Kirkland, WA
== http://www.scn.org/fomp/birding.htm
== hummer at isomedia.com


----- Original Message -----
From: Peggy Faranda
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2004 4:06 PM
Subject: chimney swifts


Just curious if anyone on this list has observed the nightly (around 6:30 pm to be more precise) swarms of chimney swifts funneling in and out of the large chimney stack of Frank Wagner Middle School on Main St. in Monroe, WA. I thought it was just a fluke at first, but I have seen it at least 5 times now, hundreds of them. I stood out there and watched them one night wondering why no one else was alongside me and in as much awe as I was.

Peggy Faranda
Snohomish, WA
themorrigan at verizon.net
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