Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 09:48:24 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Greg Downing Subject: Re: swallow questions MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit "Is this some sort of staging behavior? Do swallows gather in large groups before heading south? Do those large groups travel together?" Yes, they absolutely do! I go to Cape May, NJ in the fall to photograph hawks during migration and I have seen VERY large groups of swallows gathering around the point waiting to cross the bay. I would guess somewhere over 50,000 birds last year on one particular morning in late September. Greg Downing Parkton, MD gregdowning@mindspring.com www.gdphotography.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shireen Gonzaga" To: Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 9:32 AM Subject: [MDOSPREY] swallow questions > Hi Y'all, > > the other day, while speeding up I-83 towards the beltway > just before dusk, I encountered a large swarm of swallows > flying above the road. I was going too fast to try to identify > them. (Birding and driving is almost as bad as drinking > and driving.) > > Is this some sort of staging behavior? Do swallows gather > in large groups before heading south? Do those large > groups travel together? > > Thanks, > Shireen > > -- > Shireen Gonzaga > Baltimore, MD > whimbrel@home.com > > ======================================================================= > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > ======================================================================= > ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================