NOTES: CHIMNEY SWIFTS IN COASTAL SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Abstract

On 22 June 1968, around 16:00, I noticed a dark, uniformly colored swift — that eventually proved to be a Chimney Swift Chaetura pelagica — flying over the streets of La Jolla, a suburb in northwestern San Diego. A second individual was found a little later by Xenia Devillers and me; one or both of the swifts were seen again briefly later that evening and observed for two hours on the 23rd (with Clifford R. Lyons) and the 24th.