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--Apple-Mail=_64330DDF-000C-4790-B6F6-CEAD9A44887B Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 JUNE 8/20 =97 DUSK AT UNIVERSITY HALL, ACADIA UNIV., WOLFVILLE. Nice = evening, 15 degrees C., clear sky, no wind or very slight breze from = east. I arrived at 8:48 p.m. (sunset time was 8:57 in Herald newspaper). My = eyesight acuity is terrible now, so that I cannot see the chimney swifts = at the distances tried tonight, and I often had to use my binoculars, = which meant I could only see a small part of the sky. I saw up to 4 flying swifts from 8:52 on, and the first entries into the = sw. chimney were at about 9:05, then sporadically until 9:21. =20 My guess is that I saw a total of 20+ chimney swifts, but there could = have been substantially more than that. =20 Now we need some better observers to monitor the numbers there. Tony = Napoli last watched at Robie Tufts Nature Centre on June 6 but saw no = swifts at all. Cheers from Jim in Wolfville =97 Now both my visual acuity and driving = skills at night are inadequate for this task of dusk monitoring, so I = have to quit.= --Apple-Mail=_64330DDF-000C-4790-B6F6-CEAD9A44887B Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 <html><head><meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html = charset=3Dwindows-1252"></head><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; = -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div = style=3D"margin: 0px;"><b>JUNE 8/20 =97 DUSK AT UNIVERSITY HALL, ACADIA = UNIV., WOLFVILLE</b>. Nice evening, 15 degrees C., clear sky, no = wind or very slight breze from east.</div><div style=3D"margin: 0px; = min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style=3D"margin: 0px;">I arrived at = 8:48 p.m. (sunset time was 8:57 in Herald newspaper). My eyesight = acuity is terrible now, so that I cannot see the <b>chimney swifts</b> = at the distances tried tonight, and I often had to use my binoculars, = which meant I could only see a small part of the sky.</div><div = style=3D"margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style=3D"margin: = 0px;">I saw up to 4 flying swifts from 8:52 on, and the first entries = into the sw. chimney were at about 9:05, then sporadically until 9:21. = </div><div style=3D"margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div = style=3D"margin: 0px;">My guess is that I saw a <b>total of 20+ chimney = swifts</b>, but there could have been substantially more than that. = </div><div style=3D"margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div = style=3D"margin: 0px;">Now we need some better observers to monitor the = numbers there. Tony Napoli last watched at Robie Tufts Nature = Centre on June 6 but saw no swifts at all.</div><div style=3D"margin: = 0px;"><br></div><div style=3D"margin: 0px;">Cheers from Jim in Wolfville = =97 Now both my visual acuity and driving skills at night are inadequate = for this task of dusk monitoring, so I have to quit.</div></body></html>= --Apple-Mail=_64330DDF-000C-4790-B6F6-CEAD9A44887B--
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