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--Boundary_(ID_9EzmXVV21/VpRFwP5hR2iQ) Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT May 18, 2010 - After the evening walk at the Irving Centre in Wolfville, it was time to check on chimney swifts. George E. Forsyth had heard and seen three of them not far from University Hall at Acadia Univ. on May 17 an hour before Sunset, so I chose to watch the southwest chimney from 8:40 to 9:00 p.m. (Sunset was 8:38). I did see a couple of isolated swifts, but neither showed interest in the chimney. Then I went down to the Robie Tufts Nature Centre and watched there from 9:02 to 9:15 p.m., and I saw 6 chimney swifts dive into the chimney from 9:04 to 9:10. (Of course, the mass of swifts would have gone in there long before my watch tonight.) The weather was clear sky, calm, and warm (18 to 16 C.). --------------- May 20, 2010 - Robie Tufts Nature Centre in Wolfville at dusk: 65+ chimney swifts were counted as they went into the chimney for the night, on a beautiful evening -- clear, calm, warm (19 to 17 C.). Pat Hawes & I watched from 8:20 to 9:10 p.m. (Sunset was 8:40). A single swift swooped by the chimney several times right after our start, then numbers built up very slowly, with about 12+ flying around at low altitude by 8:38. The first swift entered the chimney at 8:40 (precisely at Sunset), one more in at 8:50, 2 more in at 8:54, and nearly all of the remaining swifts funneled in very quickly between 9:05 and 9:07. Other observers were a couple from Ottawa and a few liquor-store shoppers and passers-by. --------------- 2010 CHIMNEY SWIFTS SUMMARY May 1/10 - 0 - Robie Tufts Nature Centre (RTNC), Wolfville - Jim Wolford May 4/10 - 5+ - RTNC, Wolfville - Harold Forsyth, Jim Wolford May 4/10 - some heard (guess perhaps 25??) - Middleton - Claire Diggins May 5/10 - 44 - New Glasgow, Temperance St. School - Ken McKenna May 6/10 - 115 - Middleton Reg. High School - Wayne Neily May 8/10 - 100+ - New Glasgow, Temperance St. School - Elizabeth Doull May 8/10 - 5 - seen along Butler Rd., sw. of Kentville - Rick Whitman May 9/10 - 50+ - Wolfville, RTNC - Jean & Stephanie Timpa May 13/10 - 50+ - Wolfville, RTNC - Wendy Elliott, Jim Wolford May 17/10 - 52 - Wolfville, RTNC - Brenda & Bill Thexton May 17/10 - 386 - New Glasgow, Temperance St. School - Ken McKenna May 18/10 - zero - Wolfville, University Hall - Jim Wolford May 20/10 - 65+ - Wolfville, RTNC - Pat Hawes, Jim Wolford, et al. Cheers from Jim in Wolfville, 542-9204 --Boundary_(ID_9EzmXVV21/VpRFwP5hR2iQ) Content-type: text/html; CHARSET=US-ASCII 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 = class=3D"Apple-style-span" face=3D"Verdana" size=3D"3"><span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-size: 13px;"><b><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Verdana" size=3D"4" style=3D"font: = 13.0px Verdana">May 18, 2010 - After the evening walk at the Irving = Centre in Wolfville, it was time to check on <b>chimney = swifts</b>. George E. Forsyth had heard and seen three of them not = far from <b>University Hall at Acadia Univ.</b> on May 17 an hour before = Sunset, so I chose to watch the southwest chimney from 8:40 to 9:00 p.m. = (Sunset was 8:38). I did see a couple of isolated swifts, but = neither showed interest in the chimney.</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Verdana; = min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Verdana" size=3D"4" style=3D"font: 13.0px Verdana">Then I went = down to the <b>Robie Tufts Nature Centre</b> and watched there from 9:02 = to 9:15 p.m., and I saw <b>6 chimney swifts</b> dive into the chimney = from 9:04 to 9:10. (Of course, the mass of swifts would have gone = in there long before my watch tonight.) The weather was clear sky, = calm, and warm (18 to 16 C.).</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Verdana" size=3D"4" style=3D"font: 13.0px = Verdana">--------------- </font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; = text-align: center; "><font class=3D"Apple-style-span" face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3"><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-size: = 12px;"><br></span></font></div></b></span></font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Verdana" size=3D"4" style=3D"font: = 13.0px Verdana"><b>May 20, 2010 - Robie Tufts Nature Centre in Wolfville = at dusk: 65+ chimney swifts </b>were counted as they went into the = chimney for the night, on a beautiful evening -- clear, calm, warm (19 = to 17 C.). Pat Hawes & I watched from 8:20 to 9:10 p.m. = (Sunset was 8:40). A single swift swooped by the chimney several = times right after our start, then numbers built up very slowly, with = about 12+ flying around at low altitude by 8:38. The first swift = entered the chimney at 8:40 (precisely at Sunset), one more in at 8:50, = 2 more in at 8:54, and nearly all of the remaining swifts funneled in = very quickly between 9:05 and 9:07. Other observers were a couple = from Ottawa and a few liquor-store shoppers and = passers-by.</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = class=3D"Apple-style-span" face=3D"Verdana" size=3D"3"><span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-size: = 13px;">---------------</span></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = class=3D"Apple-style-span" face=3D"Verdana" size=3D"3"><span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-size: 13px;"><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>2010 CHIMNEY SWIFTS = SUMMARY</b></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; m