19 February 08

White-throated Swift

White-throated swifts, pen and ink When you bike under the I-80 freeway these days to get to the UC Davis campus you’re likely to hear a frenzied twittering. The swifts are back. Some of them will nest right under the freeway; most will head further north and find, we hope, a natural place for their nest that doesn’t expose them to this much danger.

I saw three yesterday flying in close formation. This is my sketch of them from memory.

Posted by at 05:42 PM in Birds in Flight | Link |

  1. Very neat! They feel like swifts to me. :)


    — Teresa    20. February 2008, 13:41    Link

  2. We saw one, maybe two, flying with/around/overandinbetween a handful of tree AND violet-green swallows on Thursday 2/28 at Lafayette Reservoir.

    They’ve nested in downtown Berkeley, on or near the public library. One of those birds that always make me holler.


    — Ron Sullivan    2. March 2008, 20:03    Link

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