[NatureNS] Chimney Swifts and Common Nighthawk, Frog Pond, HRM

Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2013 14:31:39 -0300
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	I have detected a few Chimney Swifts this year at the Frog Pond at 
Fleming Park in Jollimore, HRM, several times this year, as 
usual.  Here are my observations:

	19 May 	2 Chimney Swifts
	25 May	3	"
	29 May	5 + 	"	(reported to me by someone else)
	
	I do not know where they roost or nest.  A few years ago I spent an 
evening watching the chimneys at the nearby John W. MacLeod Fleming 
Tower School, on the Purcell's Cove Road.  I didn't see any swifts 
there and didn't look further, although I should have tried the 
chimneys at Cunard Junior High School as well.   However, I'm 
impressed by James Churchill's use of GoogleStreetView to locate 
possible chimneys!  Perhaps I'll try again.

	On 27 May I heard a single Chimney Swift during the day over the 
University of King's College in Halifax.  A few swifts used to roost 
in the chimneys there, but not in recent years.

	On 30 May I heard and then saw a single Common Nighthawk over the 
Frog Pond.  I don't often see them in the spring; usually I don't see 
them until the late summer migration.

	Patricia L. Chalmers
	Halifax

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