[NatureNS] Whither our Swallows

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From: Mike McCall <mikemccall@xcountry.tv>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:47:50 -0300
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I recently picked up a book on nature as experienced in Ontario and  
found the answer to
the question "Where do all the swallows disappear to after their  
young have fledged?"
The answer for Ontaronians, that is.

The authors tell me that in the interval between fledging and migration,
175,000 swallows gather on an island in a river near Bancroft, Ontario.

Another 100,000 gather in the marsh near Kingston, ON, at the mouth  
of the
Cataraqui River.

To what destination do our swallows head when the kids are out of the  
nest.
Is it in N.S.? N.B.? or is there a gathering place in Maine?
Freeport perhaps, now that the Loonie is doing so well?

Mike McCall



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