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--Boundary_(ID_efxVkl0ialJHw+7N41PggA) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT MAY 20, 2008 - Harold Forsyth and I checked out the CHIMNEY SWIFTS at dusk at Wolfville's Robie Tufts Nature Centre, observing there from 8:30 to 9:05 p.m. (Sunset time 8:41). Again the swifts flew about for a long time before the substantial flock of 80 SWIFTS all went in at 9:00. Then a single laggard swift entered the chimney by itself at 9:03 after some very erratic manoeuvers in the air. Thus we had a seemingly accurate TOTAL OF 81 SWIFTS. If memory serves, and since we are early in the migration period, this number bodes well for having substantially more swifts this year than our best totals for one night of about 80 for the past two seasons (and Hurricane Wilma of late autumn of 2005 gets the blame. Cheers from Jim in Wolfville, 542-9204 --Boundary_(ID_efxVkl0ialJHw+7N41PggA) Content-type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">MAY 20, = 2008 -=A0Harold Forsyth and I checked out the CHIMNEY SWIFTS at dusk at = Wolfville's Robie Tufts Nature Centre, observing there from 8:30 to 9:05 = p.m. (Sunset time 8:41).=A0 Again the swifts flew about for a long time = before the substantial flock of 80 SWIFTS all went in at 9:00.=A0 Then a = single laggard swift entered the chimney by itself at 9:03 after some = very erratic manoeuvers in the air.=A0 Thus we had a seemingly accurate = TOTAL OF 81 SWIFTS.=A0 If memory serves, and since we are=A0 early in = the migration period, this number bodes well for having substantially = more swifts this year than our best totals for one night of about 80 for = the past two seasons (and Hurricane Wilma of late autumn of 2005 gets = the blame.=A0</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; ">Cheers from Jim in Wolfville, = 542-9204</div><div><br></div> </body></html>= --Boundary_(ID_efxVkl0ialJHw+7N41PggA)--
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