I saw a dozen or more swallows on the south side of Foster Island in Seattle while kayaking Wednesday (1/14) afternoon. I got pretty good looks at them and they all had a lot of rufous on the head and squareish tails. I decided they were all almost certainly Cliff Swallows. That they were here in January struck me as very unusual.

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