Simone,
Maybe they are roosting in a chimney in your neighborhood. Keep an eye out for groups of swifts at dusk. It would be really cool to find a roost in Seattle.

Mike Donahue
Seattle


On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 ZINGIE at aol.com wrote:

> Tweets!
>
> As walked out onto my front porch a few minutes ago I heard a strange
> twittering. I looked up to see 30-40 (maybe more) Vaux's Swifts flying over my house
> in Maple Leaf! I ran inside to grab my binocs and by the time I came back out,
> they were gone. However, about a minute later and they were back. I am
> watching them now (thank goodness for wireless!) although most of them have
> disappeared again. More swifts! They are much, much higher now and headed north. There
> must be 80-100 of them! I have never seen them in my neighborhood and to have
> this many is amazing. They are gone now. Talk about bird magic...
>
> Simone Lupson-Cook
> Seattle/Olympia, WA
> Zingie at aol.com
>