Barn Swallows and Tree Swallows have been recorded in the Puget Trough in
January in prior warmer-than-average winters.

Steve Loitz
Ellensburg


On Mon, Jan 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM via Tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
wrote:


> It's January, so how can there be swallow at Deer Lagoon on Whidbey

> Island? But on this clear crisp morning…there they were. Several dozen of

> both barn and northern rough-winged working over the water and along edges

> of reeds. Close up flybys for me and other birders onsite. Have they been

> reported elsewhere in the Puget Sound Basin this early in winter?

> David Armstrong

>