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--Apple-Mail-339--199989120 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed > Subject: chimney swift nesting?, Acadia Univ., Wolfville > > AUGUST 1, 2013 - By chance today, in sunny and very warm weather > with a light breeze from the east, on a walk across the Acadia > Univ. campus I decided to sit and watch the southwest chimney of > University Hall while I cooled off. I arrived at 12:42 p.m. and > had only a very short wait to see a single chimney swift plummet > into the big chimney at 12:45. After 30 seconds or less, perhaps > that same swift? came out of the chimney and flew away. I stayed > until 1:15 but saw no more activity. Quite possibly that swift was > feeding nestlings/fledglings on the vertical walls of the big flue. > > Nesting chimney swifts, when feeding babies, and probably during > incubation too?, are well known to make infrequent visits to the > nest site during the day, often just once an hour or so. > > Very little is known of nestings in Wolfville and surrounding > communities, despite repeated pleas locally for information from > residents. > > This site has a past history as a communal roosting habitat for up > to hundreds of swifts from probably the 1940s (fide the late > Merritt Gibson) through the 1970s, 1980s, and early 1990s. But now > it is suspected to be a nesting habitat for just one pair of swifts > (+ helpers?). > > Cheers from Jim in Wolfville --Apple-Mail-339--199989120 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><br></div><blockquote = type=3D"cite"><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>chimney swift nesting?, Acadia = Univ., Wolfville</b></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: = 14px; "><br></div> <div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Tahoma" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Tahoma"><b>AUGUST 1, 2013</b> - </font><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" color=3D"#001ee6" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica; color: #001ee6">By chance today, in sunny and very warm = weather with a light breeze from the east, on a walk across the = </font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica"><b>Acadia Univ. campus</b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#001ee6" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #001ee6"> I decided to sit and watch the southwest chimney of = </font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica"><b>University Hall </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#001ee6" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #001ee6">while I cooled off. I arrived at 12:42 p.m. and had only = a very short wait to see a </font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>single chimney swift plummet = into</b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" color=3D"#001ee6" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #001ee6"> the big chimney at = 12:45. After 30 seconds or less, perhaps that </font><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>same = swift? came out </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = color=3D"#001ee6" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #001ee6">of = the chimney and flew away. I stayed until 1:15 but saw no more = activity. Quite possibly that swift was feeding = nestlings/fledglings on the vertical walls of the big = flue. </font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#001ee6" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #001ee6"><br></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#001ee6" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #001ee6">Nesting chimney swifts, when feeding babies, and probably = during incubation too?, are well known to make infrequent visits to the = nest site during the day, often just once an hour or = so. </font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal = 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 30, 230); min-height: 14px; = "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#001ee6" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #001ee6">Very little is known of nestings in Wolfville and surrounding = communities, despite repeated pleas locally for information from = residents. </font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal = normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 30, 230); min-height: = 14px; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>This site</b></font><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" color=3D"#001ee6" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica; color: #001ee6"> has a past history as a communal roosting = habitat for up to hundreds of swifts from probably the 1940s (fide the = late Merritt Gibson) through the 1970s, 1980s, and early 1990s. = But now it is suspected to be a nesting habitat for just one pair of = swifts (+ helpers?).</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" color=3D"#001ee6" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica; color: #001ee6"><br></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" color=3D"#001ee6" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica; color: #001ee6">Cheers from Jim in Wolfville</font></div> = </blockquote></div><br></body></html>= --Apple-Mail-339--199989120--
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