Swift Approach
Huge crowds flock to a Portland school to watch thousands of Vaux’s swifts funnel into a makeshift roost.
"...capitalism and conservation were mixing across the street. Freckle-faced Jack Clevenger, 12, had set up a table in his front yard to sell beverages, $1 cookies and brownies, and the children’s story Swifty’s BigFlight, written by his mother, Lee Jackson. In her delightful little book, Jackson describedthe sky above as “a maze of black birds, tiny crescentmoons twisting and turning alldirections in the wind.”
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