Advanced Birders — Here is a call for help that surely some of you can answer!!

Spring migration is about to happen at Vaux Swift chimneys, and we have a treasure here in the south sound at the fort! It is very exciting to count swifts funneling into a chimney, and it takes less than an hour on the appointed evenings. Counting guidelines will be provided plus some expenses (see below), but we need people SOON!!!!

Contact swift expert larry Schwitters (leschwitters@me.com) or Burney Huff (burney.huff@mindspring.com) for more details. See below. you can also contact our own Rolan Nelson who has been a counter there in the past at rnbuffle@yahoo.com to find out what’s entailed.

This is a fabulous chimney, largely unknown to the birding community until recently because of its inaccessability on a military base. Help make it famous! It is, however, extremely well known to Vaux Swifts who visit by the thousands.

Diane Y-Q Avosetta@hotmail.com

> From: leschwitters@me.com > To: Avosetta@hotmail.com > Subject: Vaux’s Happening at JBLM > Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 11:38:57 -0700 > > Hi Diane, > > I hope that you’ve not just survived but thrived in the “off > season”. I’m afraid we are back to needing help at JBLM. Burney > Huff did an amazing job of getting an almost nightly count last > migration. He did it with a small number of people, but is not going > to have his number two any more. For this migration only we have a > milage reimbursement and Burney can help with the pass onto base. > > If we can get good data I’ll be able to nominate it for an IMPORTANT > BIRD AREA. This is not an easy one and I know you don’t live close by. > > Larry > > Larry Schwitters > Project Coordination > Audubon Vaux’s Happening > > vauxshappening.org >