On Mon, Sep 22, 2025 at 10:58 AM Larry Schwitters via Tweeters <
<tweeters...> wrote:
> 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
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