Yes, I thought I saw one chimney swift flying low over my tulip poplar 
tree (   100 ft high) yesterday afternoon.  Then this morning at 6:10 AM 
I saw a pair of chimney swifts.  They were flying low and diving toward 
the chimney at the East Silver Spring Elementary School (631 Silver 
Spring Ave.)  They did not enter the chimney nor did I see any exit the 
chimney.  The pair flew off and did not return during the 20 min. I was 
watching.  Last Oct. on a cold morning, I counted over 400 chimney 
swifts exit that little chimney.  These are the first I have seen since 
then.

I am hoping to hear that swifts have begun to nest in the Chimney Swift 
Tower some boy scouts built at the Audubon Refuge in Virginia last summer.

George Lane
Silver Spring


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