[Tweeters] Lots of swifts

[Larry Schwitters via Tweeters]

You do know the swifts abandoned Portland Chapman last September. JBLM was abandoned this September. Monroe Wagner hasn’t seen a feather for a week. Rainier Riverside Church still has thousands. It is suspected there is a connection. For the last ten years more and more of the southbound migrating swifts have been spending more and more time at a large industrial roost near North SF Bay. We’ve documented over a million roostings there each of the last two years. This year it’s gotten out of control. The swifts are going to roost in the middle of the afternoon and it continues nearly nonstop until too dark for humans to detect swifts. They clicked off 107,000 Saturday and got there later in the day Sunday and only got 101,000 clicked. Hard on the fingers.

We got rain. Issaquah Hatchery got enough Salmon for an exciting Salmon Days.

Larry Schwitters  Issaquah