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Index of Subjects I am so glad to hear about the swifts. I used to sit on the veranda rail at home and watch them circle around and around then funnel down into the chimney at the church behind my grandmother's house in Liverpool. When the chimney was made inaccessible, I was outraged and so disappointed even as a child. Question? How does one count that many birds? Is it close to an actual count, as you say here, or a guestimate from experience? I see four birds, I can count them, I see 10 I know I am recounting and then after that I sort of figure this many........mourning doves are the exception around here. They line up and lay around. http://margmillard.ca ----- Original Message ----- From: "James W. Wolford" <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>;Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 1:40 AM Subject: [NatureNS] 81 chimney swifts in Wolfville May 20/08 > 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 > >
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