Re: [cayugabirds-l] Chimney Swifts

[Linda Post Van Buskirk]

I have a good colony of chimney swifts in my old house just north of Aurora.  
I've been taking them rather for granted for years--and maybe I should 
celebrate them as well as enjoy them.  I will attempt to do a count--

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As Jody said would be hard to tell at this point. They were in smaller groups 
kind of merging and parting. Perhaps an opportune feeding moment. Definitely 
notable to me due to good numbers.

Linda

On Jun 27, 2021, at 1:57 PM, Joshua Snodgrass  wrote:


I ran a USGS BBS route last week that goes through Ithaca on Green St. with the 
library as one of the stops. I only had 5 or so Chimney Swifts at that time. I 
wonder if several groups have merged (there were other small groups of swifts 
at nearby stops), or maybe there are some recently fledged young in the group 
you saw. I'm not sure how one would be able to differentiate the young though. 
I love those Swifts with their enthusiastic chattering.
-Josh

On Sun, Jun 27, 2021, 1:04 PM Linda Orkin 
mailto:wingmagi...@gmail.com>> wrote:
There are approximately 10 Swifts foraging and twittering over the Tompkins 
County library. They so gladden me. I hope they’re finding enough to eat.

Linda Orkin
Ithaca, NY
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Chimney Swifts

[Linda Orkin]

As Jody said would be hard to tell at this point. They were in smaller groups 
kind of merging and parting. Perhaps an opportune feeding moment. Definitely 
notable to me due to good numbers. 

Linda

> On Jun 27, 2021, at 1:57 PM, Joshua Snodgrass  wrote:
> 
> 
> I ran a USGS BBS route last week that goes through Ithaca on Green St. with 
> the library as one of the stops. I only had 5 or so Chimney Swifts at that 
> time. I wonder if several groups have merged (there were other small groups 
> of swifts at nearby stops), or maybe there are some recently fledged young in 
> the group you saw. I'm not sure how one would be able to differentiate the 
> young though. I love those Swifts with their enthusiastic chattering.
> -Josh
> 
>> On Sun, Jun 27, 2021, 1:04 PM Linda Orkin  wrote:
>> There are approximately 10 Swifts foraging and twittering over the Tompkins 
>> County library. They so gladden me. I hope they’re finding enough to eat. 
>> 
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Chimney Swifts

[Joshua Snodgrass]

Thanks, Jody!
I'll keep an eye out later this summer for non-molting birds mixed with
molting ones. Great tip for breeding confirmation, since I can never seem
to track them to a nest site. Yes, the BBS route is 61043 (Trumansburg) and
begins at Savercool Rd X 89 and runs south past Taughannock and along
Sheffield Rd to Poole where it turns toward Ithaca via Elm St Extension,
through Green St to Mitchell and Ellis Hollow Rd and Hunt Hill ending on
Midline Rd 25 miles later. The 3 minute stops every half mile make it a
pretty intense birding workout, but the habitat variety is pretty good. I
had an Acadian Flycatcher at the Ellis Hollow Rd wetland a few years back,
and I regularly get an Eastern Meadowlark or two in the grasslands around
Ulysses. This year I ran the route a couple weeks later than usual and had
a pretty poor showing of flycatchers and warblers. This was the morning
before the crazy storm though, so maybe the birds felt the atmospheric
pressure changing and were busy feeding young and battening down the
hatches. Temperature and humidity were really high too. I'm slowly
trying to get this year's effort into eBird (for the first time), but it is
a lot of data entry
Thanks,
Josh.

On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 2:14 PM Jody Enck  wrote:

> Hi Josh,
> I had no idea there was a BBS route through downtown Ithaca!  That is
> fascinating.
> You may not be able to tell apart immature and adult Chimney Swifts right
> now, but in another month or so, the adults will be going through active
> molt of their flight feathers.  Any bird at that time with a gap in their
> flight feathers will almost certainly be an adult bird.  The flight
> feathers of birds hatched this summer will stay with them until they molt
> them late next summer.
>
> Thanks for sharing.
>
> Jody
> Jody W. Enck, PhD
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> Founder of the Sister Bird Club Network
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>
>
> On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 1:57 PM Joshua Snodgrass 
> wrote:
>
>> I ran a USGS BBS route last week that goes through Ithaca on Green St.
>> with the library as one of the stops. I only had 5 or so Chimney Swifts at
>> that time. I wonder if several groups have merged (there were other small
>> groups of swifts at nearby stops), or maybe there are some recently fledged
>> young in the group you saw. I'm not sure how one would be able to
>> differentiate the young though. I love those Swifts with their enthusiastic
>> chattering.
>> -Josh
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 27, 2021, 1:04 PM Linda Orkin  wrote:
>>
>>> There are approximately 10 Swifts foraging and twittering over the
>>> Tompkins County library. They so gladden me. I hope they’re finding enough
>>> to eat.
>>>
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Chimney Swifts

[Jody Enck]

Hi Josh,
I had no idea there was a BBS route through downtown Ithaca!  That is
fascinating.
You may not be able to tell apart immature and adult Chimney Swifts right
now, but in another month or so, the adults will be going through active
molt of their flight feathers.  Any bird at that time with a gap in their
flight feathers will almost certainly be an adult bird.  The flight
feathers of birds hatched this summer will stay with them until they molt
them late next summer.

Thanks for sharing.

Jody
Jody W. Enck, PhD
Conservation Social Scientist, and
Founder of the Sister Bird Club Network
607-379-5940


On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 1:57 PM Joshua Snodgrass 
wrote:

> I ran a USGS BBS route last week that goes through Ithaca on Green St.
> with the library as one of the stops. I only had 5 or so Chimney Swifts at
> that time. I wonder if several groups have merged (there were other small
> groups of swifts at nearby stops), or maybe there are some recently fledged
> young in the group you saw. I'm not sure how one would be able to
> differentiate the young though. I love those Swifts with their enthusiastic
> chattering.
> -Josh
>
> On Sun, Jun 27, 2021, 1:04 PM Linda Orkin  wrote:
>
>> There are approximately 10 Swifts foraging and twittering over the
>> Tompkins County library. They so gladden me. I hope they’re finding enough
>> to eat.
>>
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Chimney Swifts

[Joshua Snodgrass]

I ran a USGS BBS route last week that goes through Ithaca on Green St. with
the library as one of the stops. I only had 5 or so Chimney Swifts at that
time. I wonder if several groups have merged (there were other small groups
of swifts at nearby stops), or maybe there are some recently fledged young
in the group you saw. I'm not sure how one would be able to differentiate
the young though. I love those Swifts with their enthusiastic chattering.
-Josh

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> There are approximately 10 Swifts foraging and twittering over the
> Tompkins County library. They so gladden me. I hope they’re finding enough
> to eat.
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[cayugabirds-l] Chimney Swifts

[Linda Orkin]

There are approximately 10 Swifts foraging and twittering over the Tompkins 
County library. They so gladden me. I hope they’re finding enough to eat. 

Linda Orkin
Ithaca, NY
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[cayugabirds-l] Chimney Swifts

[John and Fritzie Blizzard]

Becky  saw our first 2 swifts here at Union Springs (NY) Academy 
campus on Fri. 4/23/21. Pleasant surprise.

Fritzie B.

On 4/24/2021 4:28 PM, Bard Prentiss wrote:
>   I haven’t been watching until but the chimney Swift’s are back in Dryden
> Best,
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[cayugabirds-l] Chimney swifts ... Union Springs 5/5/20

[John and Fritzie Blizzard]

On Mon., 5/4/20 I thought I saw a chimney swift  but wasn't certain. 
Today I saw 2 over the campus of Union Springs Academy but didn't have 
time to watch for more.  Swifts have nested in the tall chimney of the 
girl's dorm off & on for at least 10 yrs.. I have seen them flying over 
here & down in the village many times. They may have been there longer & 
regularly but I just haven't paid attention. I know they nested in 
another unused campus chimney many yrs. ago,


They bring me great pleasure so I'm happy to know they are here.

Fritzie B.

Union Springs, NY



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[cayugabirds-l] Chimney swifts ... Union Springs

[John and Fritzie Blizzard]

FOY   about a doz. chimney swifts (we call them cigars) but I think 
they were migrating as none stayed over the girl's dorm of Union Springs 
Academy where they roost in the tall chimney or have had nests in past 
yrs.. I forgot to go back out before it got dark to see if any did go 
down in the chimney.


Daughter, Becky, tries to keep up with ospreys in our area. We roamed 
north to Cato-Meridian Sat. afternoon in the rain & foggy dreariness & 
found 4 new osprey nests to add to our list & I showed her a new bald 
eagle nest along the east side of Otter Lake.


The large flock of turkey vultures returned to Union Springs several 
wks. ago. I have yet to find where they roost.


Fritzie

Union Springs.


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[cayugabirds-l] Chimney Swifts

[Suan Yong]

And if it hasn't been reported yet, chimney swifts are back chittering over the 
"foothills under collegetown", around Stewart and Seneca.

Suan
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[cayugabirds-l] Chimney swifts in Union Springs!!

[John and Fritzie Blizzard]

4/30/15:  Here in Union Springs at 2 p.m. the first 4 chittering 
cigars flew overhead  circled down to the tall chimney on the girl's 
dorm. Becky was here  suddenly at least a doz. were overhead. :-) I 
hope I am wrong  that they make the chimney their summer home but 
somehow I felt they were migrating  :'( Come back, pretty pretties!


Mama Bluebird is sitting on eggs in a box up on the hump.  Tree 
swallows have claimed John's new birdbox on the west end of the 
clothesline arm  they let us get about 4 ft. from them, chittering as 
we talk softly to them. They have had a lot of fun with the white 
feathers I put out on the ground for them.


The male house sparrow guards the box on the east end even tho' he 
hasn't yet found a mate. Don't know what's in the other 3 boxes. Surely 
the wrens will claim their old house. Crows are in a tree in the  
hedgerow. Robins are in a spruce by the garage. Haven't discovered where 
the chickadees, cardinals, doves  orioles are yet.


Enjoying spring!!

Fritzie
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On 4/30/2015 12:31 PM, Joshua Snodgrass wrote:

FOY chimney swifts at 12:20pm. Chittering boomerangs flying over my yard


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[cayugabirds-l] Chimney Swifts

[Sara Jane Hymes]

I thought I would share this email from Bryant Park List Serve, that even 
non-birders are enjoying the Chimney Swifts:

Neighbors,

It appears that the flock of Chimney Swifts has returned to the Belle Sherman 
school chimney. They put on quite a show...I'd recommend it!

If you're interested, they begin gathering about 8:20 (at least that's been 
their pattern over the past few days). After 15-20 minutes of flying in big 
circles over the school and surrounding area the flock (50-60?) then streams 
into the chimney for the night. It's quite fascinating.

I'm not a birder, so if anyone has more information to share, please do!

Regards,
-Rob
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[cayugabirds-l] Chimney Swifts at Belle Sherman

[Diane Morton]

Approx 100 Chimney Swifts circling over Belle Sherman School. 8:15 pm.

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[cayugabirds-l] Chimney Swifts

[John and Fritzie Blizzard]

The swifts continue to roost in the girl's dorm chimney here in Union Springs 
at Union Springs Academy. I live right behind the dorm so have a good viewing 
spot.  

So fascinating to watch the swifts arrive just out of nowhere from what seems 
to be a sky devoid of birds, circle around about 5 minutes or so  then 
suddenly begin the descent. 

Last evening I counted 92. Takes them about 10 minutes, depending on stragglers 
or early birds. They've been coming just before 8 p.m..

The ospreys are still carrying fish to the juveniles on the NYSG platform over 
on Center St./Number One Rd.

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[cayugabirds-l] Chimney Swifts are back

[Robyn Bailey]

Our CHIMNEY SWIFTS are back finally!  We had a dozen or so flying over the 
house tonight.  Other birds in my yard tonight included NORTHERN FLICKER, WB 
NUTHATCH, pair of CARDINALS, T. TITMOUSE, pair of ROBINS, A. CROW, MOURNING 
DOVE, distant gulls, and chickadees.  But I'm especially glad about the return 
of the humble chimney swifts...perhaps because no one else took notice of them? 

Happy birding,

Robyn Bailey
downtown Cortland
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