[birdky] Re: Swifts Night Out -- Lexington
- From: Anthony Brusate <spackl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2013 13:06:50 -0400 (EDT)
The Buckley Hills Audubon Society group got together for dinner at Grey Goose
in Lexington last night and then went down to the County Clerk Annex Garage top
floor to watch/count swifts. We expected the communal roost to be the large
smokestack behind the Lexington Fayette Government building--we'd counted 14
enter that roost on August 11th. But the number of swifts entering that stack
was far below the number we actually saw on the wing.
Then one of our members noticed we were watching the wrong roost -- the
communal roost for this season looks like it's actually the lower wide chimney
behind the warehouse behind Barney Miller's:
https://maps.google.com/?ll=38.043791,-84.495602&spn=0.000478,0.00099&t=h&layer=c&cbll=38.04379,-84.495601&panoid=QAjL3Te9b8uOw-mt0jZKlA&cbp=12,4.25,,2,-31.96&z=20.
Swifts were entering it by the dozens. We estimate there were about 80 birds
we saw enter. I'm heading back tonight to get another look and to attempt a
more accurate count. I'll also try getting some video, though the distance/dusk
may make this difficult.
Highlight of the evening: We can confirm the reports of a peregrine falcon
living in downtown Lexington. The swifts don't like it: thrice, a flock of
several dozen swifts chased it over the parking garage where we were gathered.
Tony Brusate
Lexington KY
----- Original Message -----
From: "Melissa Easley" <melissaeasley1@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "BIRDKY" <birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, September 7, 2013 9:35:33 PM
Subject: [birdky] Swifts Night Out
If interested, you can count chimney swifts as they enter their roost one
more night. See http://www.chimneyswifts.org/page234.html for one more
night of the count.
I counted here in Murray, Ky. tonight at sunset and only had 26 entering
the roost (a chimney at a local school). Last week I counted 101. Seems
that most of the roost had left. Maybe these are the young? Two
nighthawks circled as I observed at the site.
Melissa Easley
Murray, Ky.
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