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--Boundary_(ID_Vn8F80h+uLPA3V0JL0zURg) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT "Counting" is a ball-park guess by counting by tens approximately as they descend into the chimney. Imagine the difficulty when there are 2300, 500, 900!! (which we had once back in 1989? in Wolfville). Counting less than 100 is quite easy, and even up to 300 or so when they go in gradually. It's on nights when all the entries are at once that you have a severe challenge! It also helps to have more than one observer, and then take the average. Marg, I'd like to know more about what you said about the church in Liverpool. Can you provide dates and more info' on how the access to the chimney was prevented? Thanks from Jim in Wolfville Begin forwarded message: > From: "Margaret E.Millard" <mmillard@eastlink.ca> > Date: May 22, 2008 10:32:21 AM ADT > To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > Subject: Re: [NatureNS] 81 chimney swifts in Wolfville May 20/08 > Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > > 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 >> > --Boundary_(ID_Vn8F80h+uLPA3V0JL0zURg) 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; "> "Counting" is a ball-park guess by counting by tens approximately as = they descend into the chimney. =A0Imagine the difficulty when there are = 2300, 500, 900!! (which we had once back in 1989? in Wolfville). = =A0Counting less than 100 is quite easy, and even up to 300 or so when = they go in gradually. =A0It's on nights when all the entries are at once = that you have a severe challenge! =A0It also helps to have more than one = observer, and then take the average.<div><br></div><div>Marg, I'd like = to know more about what you said about the church in Liverpool. =A0Can = you provide dates and more info' on =A0how the access to the chimney was = prevented?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks from Jim in = Wolfville<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: = </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica">"Margaret E.Millard" <<a = href=3D"mailto:mmillard@eastlink.ca">mmillard@eastlink.ca</a>></font></div= ><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: = </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica">May 22, 2008 10:32:21 AM ADT</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a = href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a></font>= </div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: = 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Re: [NatureNS] 81 chimney swifts in = Wolfville May 20/08</b></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Reply-To: </b></font><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a = href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a></font>= </div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: = 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> <div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; ">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.</div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">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 kno