Virginia Birders,
On Friday, Sept. 12th, a group of birders visited Grundy High School in
Buchanan County, VA to view the Chimney Swifts enter the chimney of the local
high school. It turned out to be one of the best flights that I have seen and
an estimated 6,000 swifts used the chimney that night to roost. I did manage
some video of the event which I posted to YouTube. If you have a high speed
connection be sure to click the link just below the video screen which says,
"watch in high quality" (otherwise the swifts are blurred). The moon was
rising above the mountain which I used as a backdrop in order to see the swifts
- which means that I was only filming a portion of the sky over the school.
The video is two minutes long.
Here is the direct link to the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn92pFcmjB8
Also, for those interested, I took some pictures on Saturday during the
Buchanan County Bird Club Warbler Day. There is also a link to the video from
this page:
http://www.pbase.com/aquilaet/warbler2
Ed Talbott
Grundy, Virginia
