View this nightly aerial spring spectacle as the birds come back to Bend to roost The Vaux s (rhymes with foxes) swift is a 4½-inch long, fast-moving bird (it s a swift after all) that resembles a cigar with wings. The smallest of all North American swifts, these aerial acrobats put on a nightly show during their annual migrations through downtown Bend. From their winter range which is the tropics of Mexico south to Venezuela, these 4-ounce birds undertake a Herculean migration flying to their breeding grounds in the Northwest (central California to southeast Alaska). Bendites and visitors may bear witness to this passage and enjoy watching these whirlwinds of wings as they circle round a downtown chimney atop the Boys & Girls Club at 500 NW Wall Street before descending in a controlled chaos into the darkness below.
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No one, not even the most dyed-in-the-wool contrarian, could argue against 1983 as the year of the greatest NFL draft quarterback class ever. A record six QBs were selected in the first round, among them future Hall of Famers John Elway, Jim Kelly and Dan Marino.
Perhaps the most remarkable since then came around in 2018, when, for the first time, four passers Baker Mayfield, Sam Darnold, Josh Allen and Josh Rosen went in the top 10. With the No. 32 pick went Lamar Jackson, who, it turns out, is kind of good.
But there’s something about the guys who are playing now, the 2021 class. We try hard around here not to get sucked into hyperbole OK, fine, we traffic in it liberally but the 2021 class is just plain the best one since 1983, and we’ll die on that hill until we’re left with no choice but to deny ever having taken this position.
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