Vaux's and Chimney Swifts will usually hang out on the bricks until it warms up enough for the local insect population to become available. Sometimes that's not until afternoon. This morning the 600 Vaux's in the Wagner Center chimney took off into a cool and wet sky at 7:20. This suggests they're not going bug hunting they're going south. We're see if any new migrates make it in from Canada to replace them.

Larry Schwitters
Issaquah