The sort of structure that Vaux's Swifts seem to prefer for communal
migration roosting are huge brick chimneys. The bigger the better.
Unfortunately, these keep getting capped or torn down. Let's make a
list of the 20 largest chimneys in Washington State. I'll start.

1. Near the Canadian Border in the middle of some small town is a
biggie, but I don't think its brick. Everson sounds right. Right?

2. In the middle of Sedro-Woolley is the Skagit Steel round brick
structure. We know it has been used by Vaux's in the past. Was there
another huge chimney that was recently torn down in Sedro-Woolley?

3. Mt Vernon has a large tube with tulips painted on it.

4. By the Stanwood sewage ponds in a something that would look good if
it was made out of brick.

5. What's that in Concrete that had the Goshawk on it?

6. Going east on highway 2 out of Monroe, is a large enough, but not
brick enough, tower to give Wagoner Elementary serious competition.
Swifts have been seen there too.

7. A mile NE of Snoqualmie Falls was a very tall Weyerhaeuser plant
brick something. Was it five years ago they wiped that out?

8. The University of Washington Campus-Red Square, it's big, it's
beautiful, it's brick. Does it ventilate the parking Garage?

9. On Capital Hill at like James and 17th? Some medical facility.
It's got a ton of bricks in it. I could not tell if it had a screen
over it.

10. Does Seattle University have something?

11. Just east of Buckley, near the Rainier School, is a state shop
with a large chimney.

Wouldn't it be something if you discovered an unknown roost with
thousands of birds using it?

Your turns.

Larry Schwitters
Issaquah