Greetings: I see some of you are reporting your Chimney Swift watch sights to MOU. We reported to Ron Windingstad. Here is our report: Friday, August 9th we watched a short chimney on a house just north of our apartment in Faribault. Kirsten heard three swifts and we saw three birds flying over us. No activity on the chimney. Sunday, August 9th we watched a tall (10 foot) chimney on the Brunswick Hotel building. Thre were many swifts flying up high. Kirsten counted a total of 160 birds. The largest flock was 27. We assumed that many of the 27 repeated. We saw ONLY one swift enter the chimney, so may be there was a nesting pair in there. We figured that there must be a chimney between that location and the one on Friday night. We have not tried any counts in that area. Forest and Kirsten Strnad Faribault, Mn.
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