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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The 2017 fall swift counts took place on 61 evenings among seven chimneys, and all but one roost stand inside Delaware City. My first count took place on August 8 and the last with swifts took place on October 11. I missed counting on October 12 since I was attending a meeting and a delicious supper catered by
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Columbus Audubon’s own Darlene Sillick, conservationist and citizen scientist, tells us all about Chimney Swifts — and tells you how you, too, can join in a citizen science project.
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My compulsion to count Chimney Swifts began on August 7 and lasted until October 11 after I had not seen any swifts for two consecutive nights. I counted the avian migrants for 56 nights as they sought evening shelter in chimneys in or near Delaware County during their autumn journey to Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and the northwest corner of Brazil.
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