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Re: chimney swifts, Chardon High School
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Leslie Sours <[log in to unmask]>
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Leslie Sours <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:16:47 -0400
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Thanks for the heads up, Andi.
I walked over to UAHS this evening to see the spectacle.  There were easily
still 1,000 birds, probably quite a few more than that.  I also saw about a
dozen common nighthawks over the school.  A few folks saw me looking up and
stopped to look.  Most thought that they were seeing bats, and one gentleman
said that he knew for an absolute fact that they were starlings.  The high
school principle walked out and watched for a minute...just long enough to
have one of the birds "drop" a calling card onto him!  He knew that they
were swifts!
I stopped at Dublin Sells last night and saw a great show there as well.
Wonderful to have two evenings with lots of swifts, beautiful sunsets,
topped off with the huge red moon.


On 9/12/11 8:38 PM, "Andi Wolfe" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Just saw a thousand or more chimney swifts diving into the Upper Arlington
> High School chimney.  Over the summer we'd observe several hundred at a
> time, but this was totally mind blowing tonight.
>
> Andi
>
> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 6:07 AM, Marilyn E Rohr <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
>
>> A large number of chimney swifts have joined the handful that roost in our
>> school's chimney all summer. I estimate there are 200 or so currently in
>> the roost, a significant increase from 20 a week ago. Last year over 800
>> were tallied before they departed for South America.
>>
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