Blogging has been a bit light recently but you can see from the latest eBird map that the swifts are now dispersing widely across the USA and springing into Ontario. The last blog contained a mistake as the people at eBird scrapped the highly unusual recordof a Chimney Swift in Montreal. Therefore, the first Chimney Swift in Canada was actually recorded on April 17th at Second Marsh/McLaughlin Bay Wildlife Reserve in Oshawa. With Chimney Swifts now being recorded in Wisconsin and Iowa, it will not be too long before they are again spotted in the skies of Manitoba.
On a different note, any eagle-eyed viewers out there may have seen a new link on our homepage to a new Chimney Swift information brochure produced by Environment Canada. If you haven’t seen it, then it is well worth the look. Take a look at http://www.registrelep-sararegistry.gc.ca/virtual_sara/files/gen_info/fs_martinet_ramoneur_chimney_swift_1113_e.pdf.
