It’s Chimney Swift Night!
Thank you once again to all our volunteers who came out for up to 6 evenings over the past, almost month, to watch and count Chimney Swifts. We have some fantastic monitoring results, which will be sent across to the folk at Environment Canada, as well as be used by ourselves in our endeavours to learn about, and conserve Manitoba’s Chimney Swifts.
Someone asked me recently: ‘what next?’
A very good question!
We are proposing for the remainder of the season that Wednesday nights become ‘Swift Nights’. Every Wednesday we are encouraging volunteers to either check up on your chimney, visit a new chimney, or join us for a focused blitz of chimneys.
If you are interested in looking at a new chimney, let me know, and I will search the database for a possible new site.
If you are interested in coming out for a ‘Swift Blitz’, we already have the following plans in our diaries:
June 27th – Join Lynnea in Manitou (and possibly Carman, Morden and Darlingford, depending on numbers). Ride sharing is encouraged.
July 4th – River Heights sites (for those in Winnipeg)
More dates will be announced later – but if you have any more ideas, please come forward and suggest them (Frank and Jacquie I know are thinking of a night in Otterburne)
— Tim Poole