Date Friday, September 10 Saturday, September 11 Sunday, September 12 Average Clintonville: Indian Springs 317 449 315 360 Dublin: Sells 0 – – 0 Worthington: Colonial Hills Swift Counts
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Date Friday, August 13 Saturday, August 14 Sunday, August 15 Average Clintonville: Indian Springs 377 401 397 392 Dublin: Sells 211 211 Worthington: Colonial Hills 415 610 513 Swift Counts
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Swift Night Out is the weekend for official counts of roosting Chimney Swifts. The swifts provide a spectacle as they swirl in the air, only to drop into a chimney for the night. The counts help scientists to follow swift populations.
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Swift Night Out is the weekend for official counts of roosting Chimney Swifts. The swifts provide a spectacle as they swirl in the air, only to drop into a chimney for the night. The counts help scientists to follow swift populations.
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On August 8, 2016, I set out to start my fourteenth annual fall Chimney Swift count as swifts select local chimneys for nightly roosting as they work their way to their winter homes in Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, and the northwest corner of Brazil. I had previously downloaded a Sun Rise/Set Table from the Astronomical Applications
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Friday, September 9 Dublin: 45 Observers counted an outstanding total of 1,533 swifts at Sells Middle School. Saturday, September 10 Clintonville: Observers counted 305 swifts at Indian Springs Elementary School. Conditions were poor, with a light but steady rain and heavy overcast making for a gloomy evening. The flock assembled very quickly and very early: a rather
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