for the past 3 years, I have gone out onto Nimisilia Reservoir
Hi all-

for the past 3 years, I have gone out onto Nimisilia Reservoir to view the 
thousands of Purple Martins that roost on the lake--yes I said thousands.  This 
year, I went out 4 times. I have posted videos on youtube.com --Look under   
 browncreeper53    to view these videos.  I was out last week--the numbers are 
down to "just" hundreds.  They roost on a cattail "island" out on the water.  
They usually use a large patch of cattails.  Last week-they had moved to a 
smaller patch--the larger patch looking pretty trampled over from the previous 
weeks roosting by thousands of birds.  I began watching them back near the 
beginning of August.  There is a good article from last years Beacon Journal 
(Akron)--maybe a local library can pull up the article if anyone is interested.

Good birding--
Sandy Brown
Akron OH

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