<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Verdana"><b>MAY 17, 2010</b> - At dusk at <b>Robie Tufts Nature Centre</b> in Wolfville, Brenda & Bill Thexton counted <b>52 chimney swifts</b> going into the chimney on a lovely evening. <b>BUT</b> earlier that evening, just before 7:30 p.m., George E. Forsyth heard and then saw at least 3 <b>chimney swifts</b> not far from the southwest chimney on <b>University Hall</b> of Acadia University (which was heavily used by roosting swifts through the 1970s and 1980s). Thus we need to check out that old site for the swifts to see if there is any roosting activity going on these days/dusks.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Verdana; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Verdana">At the Blomidon Naturalists Society meeting tonight, I mentioned that <b>we badly need volunteers to do observations at dusk</b>, at both the RTNC and Univ. Hall in Wolfville and other places for swifts, <b>and please write down what you see</b> at the RTNC or phone me (542-9204) or e-mail -- I "guesstimate" the numbers as they go into the chimneys by 10s, since they often "pour in" so quickly that a one-by-one count is impossible.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Verdana; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Verdana"><b>AND</b> at the <b>Temperance St. School in New Glasgow</b>, Ken McKenna had a great evening and "counted" <b>386 chimney swifts</b> going into the chimney there at dusk.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>2010 CHIMNEY SWIFTS SUMMARY</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">May 1/10 - 0 - Robie Tufts Nature Centre (RTNC), Wolfville - Jim Wolford</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">May 4/10 - 5+ - RTNC, Wolfville - Harold Forsyth, Jim Wolford</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">May 4/10 - some heard (guess perhaps 25??) - Middleton - Claire Diggins</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">May 5/10 - 44 - New Glasgow, Temperance St. School - Ken McKenna</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">May 6/10 - 115 - Middleton Reg. High School - Wayne Neily</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">May 8/10 - 100+ - New Glasgow, Temperance St. School - Elizabeth Doull</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">May 8/10 - 5 - seen along Butler Rd., sw. of Kentville - Rick Whitman</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">May 9/10 - 50+ - Wolfville, RTNC - Jean & Stephanie Timpa</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">May 13/10 - 50+ - Wolfville, RTNC - Wendy Elliott, Jim Wolford</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">May 17/10 - 52 - Wolfville, RTNC - Brenda & Bill Thexton</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">May 17/10 - 386 - New Glasgow, Temperance St. School - Ken McKenna</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Cheers from Jim in Wolfville, 542-9204</span></font></div></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></font></div>
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