Hi All I saw a large number of swifts last night and tonight I found the roost in one of the chimmneys at the First St. Andrews Church at the corner of Waterloo and Queens Ave.
The church has a lot of chimmneys and the swifts are using the square mid-level chimmney between the manse and the church (which are adjoined). Tonight between 8 and 8:15 we witnessed about 100 swifts enter the chimmney. Good views from the church grounds, but I think a better view would be from the parking lot just north of the church. This is a great time of year to look for a swift roost. The swifts will circle the roost area (counter clockwise) in a large circle starting at about 7:30 pm. The circle gets smaller and smaller until the swifts flutter into the chimmney. The number of swifts will probably increase for the next couple of weeks and then decrease as the swifts migrate on. Good birding, Ellen Smout London, Ontario Directions: Hwy 401 to Wellington St South. Go right (east) at King St until Waterloo, then go left (north) until Queens. You will see First St. Andrews on the left. Parking available on Queens and Waterloo. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Sep 5 13:21:30 2006 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from fc.ucc.on.ca (fc.ucc.on.ca [209.167.234.8]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 960D16347C for <[email protected]>; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 13:21:28 -0400 (EDT) Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 13:21:28 -0400 X-Mailer: FirstClass 8.2 (build 8.090) X-FC-SERVER-TZ: 15729388 To: [email protected] From: "Max Perren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: [Ontbirds]C. Nighthawks-Toronto X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 17:21:31 -0000 I saw between 50 and 60 Common Nighthawks over Upper Canada College at 12:30PM today. They were flying in a southerly direction and some appeared to be hunting. Upper Canada College is located near St Clair Avenue and Avenue Road in Toronto. Max Perren Upper Canada College 220 Lonsdale Road Toronto, On M4V 2X8
