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Back in the days when Peter Whelan was writing wonderful weekly columns in the Saturday Globe and Mail, there used to be huge swallow roost in a big cattail marsh near Pembroke, Ontario, wherever that is. I know that post-fledging swallows often form big flocks during that time leading up to emigration, and any bird that forms big flocks (except starlings, of course) becomes more difficult to encounter if the number of flocks is limited. We used to have big post-fledging flocks of tree, bank, and barn swallows perching on the wires around the Wolfville sewage ponds out on the dykeland east of Wolfville, but apparently not so in recent years? Cheers from Jim in Wolfville ---------- From: Mike McCall <mikemccall@xcountry.tv> Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:47:50 -0300 To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca Subject: [NatureNS] Whither our Swallows 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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