Volunteers throughout the state are needed for Audubon Minnesota’s Chimney Swift Sit - Part II. Participants watch for about an hour at dusk any day September 11-13, 2009 counting swifts as they enter a nighttime roosting place. You can count on one night or on several nights during this designated period.
With the cooler weather of late many of you that participated in Part I of the Sit during August 7-9, and we thank you that, you will note an absence/shift in chimney swift usage of the various sites. Some are no longer being used by the swifts as they have gathered at larger communal roost and some of the chimneys/smoke stacks will have more as they prepare for migration. Negative reports on the chimneys that were used in the August Sit will be most useful as well. For more information about the Sit and to download the participation forms go to http://mn.audubon.org/events/714 If you cannot participate in the Sit but know places where Chimney Swifts might be roosting, please contact Ron Windingstad at rwindings...@audubon.org. The information collected on this first annual event will be posted towards the end of September on http://mn.audubon.org. Claudia Egelhoff Minneapolis, MN ---- Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
