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Chimney Swift images © Greg Lavaty
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Swifts Over Dayton
Spreadsheet with count data and graphs for the Pershing/Whole Foods/St. Paul's and Dayton Swift Counts
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Aug 14 Report: Tonight we counted over 400 swifts going to roost in the old rice dryer in Dayton. Our big '0l coon was back tonight. He climbed over the ledge above the entrance and sit in the opening, just like he did last time, for a long time. When one of our guys walked across the street he went back up over the ledge, but it was getting pretty dark by the time he left and the swifts were able to enter. He looked like he was just sitting there looking at us as we looked at him.
We meet at the northeast corner of Hwy 321 and FM 1960 in the bank parking lot. Bring binoculars and lawn chairs.
Previous Numbers:323 (8/10), 300+ (8/7), 231 (7/31), 236 (7/24), 226 (7/17), 203 (7/10), 192 (7/3),224 (6/26) 181 (6/19), 146 (6/12), 136 (6/5), 96 (5/29).
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Dayton Rice Dryer images courtesy of Stuart Marcus Background: We hope to count Chimney Swifts at the old American Rice Growers Association rice dryer in Dayton each Thursday and would welcome anyone who would like to join us. We meet at the northeast corner of Hwy 321 and FM 1960 in the bank parking lot. Bring binoculars, a lawn chair, and be prepared to count over 200 swifts as they dart into the rice dryer. They don't call them "swifts" for nothing.
--Barbara Tilton
Dayton Swift Count 2008
Graph prepared by Pam Smolen
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