<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">9/6<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>1000 circling. But Merlins made swifts go high and then the majority else where. <div>9/7<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>526</div><div>9/8<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>446</div><div>9/9<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>335</div><div>9/10<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>83</div><div>9/11<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>212 They didn’t leave until 1:25 this afternoon which suggests today was not a travel day. Observers comment below.</div><div>9/12<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 14px;">Just as a group of about 600 to 650 swifts were about to swarm into the chimney, a Falcon chased them away . The swifts flew away at a very high altitude and did not return. </span></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#333333"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I suspect most tweeters know that the wee birds abandoned Portland Chapman a year ago.</span></font></div><div><font color="#333333"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#333333"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Larry</span></font></div><div><font color="#333333"><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#333333"><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></font><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Sep 12, 2025, at 4:29 PM, Gene Beall via Tweeters <tweeters@u.washington.edu> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div>Anyone know how the number of swifts in the Monroe Wagner site are trending the past couple nights?<br><br>Thank you!<br><br>Gene Beall<br>gene.beall@gmail.com<br>Sammamish, WA<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Tweeters mailing list<br>Tweeters@u.washington.edu<br>http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters<br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>