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Swifts/Coop/Monarch

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Noah Kahn

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Noah Kahn

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Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:47:10 -0700

Other than for my yard, I don't track early/late dates but it must be getting sorta late for Chimney Swift, yes?  I had 3 foraging over the house near dusk.  As well as an imm. Cooper's hawk.  And a lone monarch flapping methodically, aimed straight for Mexico.

Anyone else have swarms of flying Yellow ants in their yards now?  I found a colony of mostly winged, reproductive adults (brown with wings) and workers (smaller, pale yellow with no wings) in one spot in the yard.  If you find this, rustle them up a little and they give off a very strong, spot-on lemon smell.  Pretty cool.

Noah Kahn
Silver Spring, MD


"There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot...like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher 'standard of living' is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television, and the chance to find a pasque-flower is a right as inalienable as free speech." 
Aldo Leopold (who else?)