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all the best Ken ------=_NextPart_000_0364_01CE8A55.BB2D8960 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content=3D"text/html; charset=3Diso-8859-1" = http-equiv=3DContent-Type> <META name=3DGENERATOR content=3D"MSHTML 8.00.6001.23507"> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial>Ken McKenna<BR>Box 218 Stellarton = NS<BR>B0K=20 1S0<BR>902 752-7644<BR></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial>Hi all</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial>Swift numbers have increased at the = Temperance St,=20 school the last few days with an estimate of 173 entering the chimney = tonight=20 (July 26). I arrived at the chimney at 8:38 tonight and could hear = swifts=20 high in the air. There was one other car with 2 people there ahead of = me.=20 Tonight it was 25C and mostly clear when I arrived with a slight breeze. = The=20 swifts tonight did not put on much of a visible show. They remained high = in the=20 sky twittering until 8:58 when the first dropped in the chimney=20 from a vertical plunge. Eight more dropped down in a = similar=20 manner in 1's and 2's till 9:06 when 100 very quickly dropped in in = 5-10=20 seconds. There was no low circuits of the chimney at all. In the next = minute=20 another 64 entered for a night's total of 173. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial>It was a difficult night to count as = dark clouds=20 came in behind the chimney about 10 min. before the swifts entered. = After all=20 had gone in, I went over to the car which was parked in the centre of = the=20 parking lot and they had missed the bulk of the swifts seeing only = one=20 bird. They had placed themselves with an electric pole and the = observatory=20 covering a great deal of the chimney. I had not realized their = visibility was so=20 limited from that angle. Luckily they live in New Glasgow and can come = back=20 another night. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial>From my notes from other years this = date is often=20 the height of the second peak in numbers for the year. Anyone wanting to = see pretty good numbers would be best to go over the next few = days=20 although a few swifts will still be present till about mid-August. = I=20 find by then, however, the entry time becomes a little hard = to=20 predict. Note tonight the birds entered quite late- just as the=20 street lights came on. Most of the year, the swifts have been = in the=20 chimney well before the street lights come on. On July 23, a darker = evening, the majority went in by 8:33. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial>all the best</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial>Ken</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0364_01CE8A55.BB2D8960--
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