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Date: Fri Sep 24, 2010 5:26 am ((PDT))
Great job on the Vaux Swifts Martin. We have up to 500 Chimney Swifts that =
nest
in a school chimney here in Nova Scotia. It is amazing to watch them come i=
nto
'roost' in the evenings just before Sunset. They swirl around and and aroun=
d the
chimney after a day feeding, as more Swifts join, the flock gets thicker an=
d
more dense until its like a moving black cloud, over 500 of them! Then all =
of a
sudden, as if its=C2=A0one huge 'being', they fly into the flu giving the i=
mpression
it is smoke going backwards! It is quite a spectacle and one that I would l=
ike
to record some day. It is right down town and would be a challenging locati=
on,
but with the right gear certainly do-able if you could get close to the flu=
which is perhaps 60-80ft up.
cheers
Mark
=C2=A0Mark A. Brennan
Canadian Landscape Painter
www.markbrennanfineart.ca
Nature Recordist
http://wildearthvoices.org
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