Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 17:42:19 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Francine Nietubicz Subject: chimney swifts MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit we saw the chimney swifts funneling into the chimney at 32nd and elm in baltimore. now we have a question or two. is there an equally impressiv e exodus from the chimney in the morning? do they do this every evening or just now? are they just passing through on their way somewhere else? it really is a terrifically impressive gathering of birds (estimated by others at over 2000). we can't imagine what the inside of that chimney l ooks like! thanks for any answers. francine and joe nietubicz ======================================================================== To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================== ==========================================================================