Folks- after completing my Mt. Evans BBS route today, my dad Jim & I
continued up to the summit parking lot of Mt. Evans (the route ends
just before Summit Lake.) In nearly calm conditions and under mostly
blue skies, we enjoyed the aerobatics of a squadron of 4 Black Swifts
above the 14-er. This was the first time I'd seen them in such fair
weather conditions, away from a nesting site. Awesome doesn't begin
to describe the 20 or so minutes we watched them- sometimes they
swooped fairly close and vocalizations were heard and at other times
they climbed to become racing specks- I'd guess they topped 15,000
feet in such climbs. Who knows if they spent time unseen even
higher? A couple of Brown-capped Rosy-Finch transits of the parking
weren't bad, either.
Sounds like tomorrow's weather might push some Black Swifts down from
their normal high-elevation haunts.
Enjoy- Bill Schmoker, Longmont
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