Swift Night Out
The Lower Trinity Valley Bird Club hosted a “Swift Night Out” on Saturday, August 9, 2008 at the Legends Bank in Dayton. In addition to counting chimney swifts that fly
into the old rice dryer, the Bird Club will supplied information and refreshments.
We met at the northeast corner of Hwy 321 and FM 1960
in the bank parking lot and counted over 300 swifts as they darted into the rice dryer. They don’t call them “swifts” for nothing.
Counting Chimney Swifts at the rice dryer in Dayton
Have you wondered what those folks, sitting in lawn chairs at the Dayton Legend Bank parking lot on Thursday evenings, looking through binoculars and spotting scopes were doing??? We are counting Chimney Swifts as they go to roost in the old American Rice Growers Association rice dryer.
One evening in mid May, Margaret & Maureen O’Conner noticed some birds swirling around the rice dryer as they passed through the intersection of FM 1960 and HWY 321 just before dark. Being members of the Lower Trinity Valley Bird Club, they mentioned this to some of the other members and they all decided to check it out one evening. So began the counting of the Chimney Swifts. We first counted 96 on May 29, 2008 and committed to count them every Thursday evening. We have counted as many as 224 on June 26, 2008.
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