We decided to sit outside for dinner at the Thai restaurant in Cleveland Park tonight, adjacent to the massive chimney swift roost at the Broodmoor building.  We had front row seats throughout dinner for another great swift show (estimates failed us, but there were thousands).  As we ate, more and more people began asking us what we were looking at, and why did we have binoculars at dinner?  We ended up talking about swifts and migration to many people, and passing our binoculars around to just about everyone dining outside and to a few curious people walking by on the sidewalk as well.  It was really cool sharing this experience with a bunch of strangers, and seeing people notice some birds for the first time.   Hooray for chimney swifts!

Mike and Alisa