There is a chimney swift tower on the north side of the lake at Westwood Hills Nature Center in St Louis Park. I don't know if any swifts use it. It was built as a boy scout eagle scout project, according to the plaque on the side of it.
On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 11:48 AM Paul Schlick <schli...@msn.com> wrote: > Those interested in chimney swifts might want to search "Althea Sherman" & > "Chimney Swift". Sherman (1853-1943) was a trained artist and self-taught > ornithologist from Iowa. In 1915 she designed and commissioned a 9-ft > square, 28-ft tall tower surrounding a 14-ft fake chimney to study swifts, > and became the first to document their previously unobserved life cycle. > Her ground-breaking reports drew world-renowned ornithologists to her > tower. After her death, the tower was removed but rediscovered in 1991 and > refurbished in 2013. It sits northeast of Iowa City near Buchanan, again > hosting chimney swifts (see IPTV YouTube video). The late Bob Anderson of > Raptor Resource and Decorah Eagles fame was involved. A full-size replica > tower was built in 2009 and sits on a hill along Hwy 52 in NE Iowa > alongside the cemetery where Sherman is buried. Swifts use that tower, too. > There is much more to Sherman's pioneering story. I wrote a short article > about her in 2015 that you can read on page 3 of this pdf: > https://www.lib.umn.edu/pdf/ahl/FAHL-Newsv20-1.pdf . > > Paul Schlick > > ---- > Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > > During the pandemic, the MOU encourages you to stay safe, practice social > distancing, and continue to bird responsibly. > ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html During the pandemic, the MOU encourages you to stay safe, practice social distancing, and continue to bird responsibly.
