I should have mentioned that while yesterday's essay on the Common Swift in the
New York Times magazine contains some very interestingfacts and studies about
the European Common Swift, the author Helen MacDonald has written an essay that
is more like a poem. It's anallegorical piece of how human
Chimney Swift fans might be interested in reading the article in yesterday's
New York Times magazine.It's about the swift's European cousin, the Common
Swift, and what's called its Vesper flight.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/29/magazine/vesper-flights.html
Val LandwehrMinneapolis, MN
Jo
Hi Gordon,
I counted 58 Chimney Swifts at Robbinsdale Middle School last night. This
is higher than my usual count here, typical count was 12.
PS, sorry, I didn't use Reply All earlier.
Curt Rawn
On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 6:05 PM Gordon Andersson
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I believe that's a silo at Nordicware, but Cedar Manor School on Cedar Lake
Rd at Hwy 169 has a good chimney where I've seen Swift's in the past.
On Mon, Aug 3, 2020, 1:27 PM Kathryn Rudd wrote:
> This is so interesting about Chimney Swifts! We have a wood burning
> fireplace but I think it has
This is so interesting about Chimney Swifts! We have a wood burning fireplace
but I think it has a “hat” and screen on it. So, I believe that’s why we don’t
see the swifts. I was wondering about that huge Nordic Ware chimney in St Louis
Park that I see each time I drive on Hwy 100. Would there b
And I think it’s pretty amazing that you made that photo - thanks for sharing!
Tom Gilde
> On Aug 3, 2020, at 1:02 PM, Terence Brashear wrote:
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> August is the time of year that nesting has been completed and groups start
> forming for communal roosting. There is a chimney at the corner of
August is the time of year that nesting has been completed and groups start
forming for communal roosting. There is a chimney at the corner of 22nd
and Lyndale Ave S that I saw close to 200 birds enter the chimney to roost
a few years back. It looks like a giant tornado of swift.
I find it amazi
Hello--
I've been noticing Chimney Swifts in my neighborhood in SW Minneapolis, but
have not been able to determine where they're roosting. Maybe down the block at
44th and Vincent area, where St. Thomas church and Carondelet School are
located(?) We had "light scratching noises" in our chimney
Sadly, the Excelsior flock of Chimney Swifts appears to have lost their home in
downtown Excelsior this summer. I've enjoyed watching them for years, but I
have not seen any this summer. The old, tall brick chimney that they roosted
in for years was demolished. Hopefully they were able to find
There is also an active colony in the Uptown area of Minneapolis. I'm not
sure where they roost, though in the past years I've thought it was on
Franklin and Hennepin. You will see and hear them all day long throughout
the wedge neighborhood of Uptown. and after sunset the Common Nighthawks
take ov
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