A SWIFT NIGHT OUT

2009

A Continent-wide Chimney Swift Roost Monitoring Project
Text Box: Powell, OH: School Chimney - +500 Travis County, TX: Chimney Swift Tower 123 Bellaire, TX: Multiple sites - 334 / 110 Liberty County, TX: Rice Drier - 173 Haines City, FL: Residential Chimney Oxford, CT: School Chimney - 230 Elkhart, IN: School Chimney - 414 Garland, TX: Residential Chimney - 4 Emlenton, PA: Former School Chimney - ~1500 Summerville, SC: Residential Chimney 100 Travis County, TX: Chimney Swift Tower - 119 Orchard Park, NY: School Chimney - 31 Maplewood, MO: Commercial Chimney - ~500 Shorewood, WI: Decommissioned Incinerator - 167 Austin, TX: Decommissioned Incinerator - 3 New Glasgow, NS: School Chimney - 17 / 21 Cedarburg, WI: Residential Chimney - 7 Elkhart, IN: Commercial Chimney - 120 Toulon, IL: School Chimney - 153 New Bern, NC: Multiple Sites - 400 / 100 / 300 Tampa, FL: Church Chimney - 115 Richland Hills, TX: School Chimney - 0 Savannah, GA: Residential Chimney - 10 Saint-Georges de Beauce, QC: Commercial - 282 Dallas, TX: Chimney Swift Tower - 0 Travis County, TX: Chimney Swift Tower - 122 Bellaire, TX: Multiple Sites - 503 / 26 / 200 North Bennington, VT: Commercial Chimney - 112 Atlanta, GA: Residential Chimney - 4 Gainesville, VA: Commercial Chimney - 33 Tampa, FL: Church Chimney - 115 Elkhart, IN: Commercial Chimney - 594 Tullahoma, TN: School Chimney - 575 Roseburg, OR: Pottery Shed Chimney - 0 Austin, TX: Chimney Swift Towers (2) - 7 / 2 Homer, LA: Multiple Sites - 279 / 7 / 44 / 30 ST. Augustine, FL: Residential Chimney - 27 Columbia, SC: Commercial Chimney - +500 Morehead City, NC: School Chimney - +1000 Galena and Delaware, OH: Multiple Sites - 97 / 123 / 74 / 49 / 31 / 54 / 7 / 1 / 43 / 217 Pittsburgh, KS: Multiple Sites - total Swifts: 428 Racine, WI: Multiple Sites - 65 / 18 Dublin, OH: School Chimney - +500 Midlothian, VA: Residential Chimney - see report Kewaunee, WI: Commercial Chimney - +100 Topeka, KS: School Chimney - 191 Holland, MI: 17 Sanford, FL: Residential Chimney - 0 Oakman, GA: Chimney Swift Towers - 9 Milwaukee, WI: Church Chimney - 3 Dallas, TX: Chimney Swift Tower - (3) Sykesville, MD: Commercial Chimney - 4 Wolfville, NS: Robie Tufts Center - 73 / 80 / 69 Johnson City, TX: Chimney Swift Tower - 2 Seabrook, TX: Residential Chimney - 17 Woodbine, MD: Residential Chimney - 18 Oneida, NY: Commercial Chimney - +200 Oldenburg, IN: Commercial Chimneys - 535 / 760 Homer, LA: Chimney Swift Towers - 24 / 0 / 0 Grandes-Piles, QC: Church Chimney - 62 Bathurst, NB: Church Chimney ~100 Thomasville, GA: Commercial Chimney - 195 Wolfville, NS: Multiple sites Dayton, TX: Old Rice Drier - 150 Middleton, NS: School Chimney - ~200 Brampton, ON: Commercial Chimney - 37 Bellaire, TX: Multiple sites - 512, 9, 289, 36 Fowlerville, MI: Commercial Chimney - ~250 Algona, IA: Commercial Chimney - 4 Fenton, IA: Residential Chimney - 4 St. Paul, MN: Multiple sites - 2, 8, 2 Peninsula, OH: Commercial Chimney - 16 Mackinac Island, MI: Fort Watchtower - 38 Milwauki, OR: Residential Chimney - ~12 Greensboro, NC: Church Chimney - ~500 Dayton, TX: Old Rice Drier - 172 Chagrin Falls, OH: Church Chimney - ~375 Bellaire, TX: Chimney Swift Tower - 63 Dallas, TX: Commercial Chimney - 425 Galena, KS: Middle School Chimney - 764 La Grange, TX: Middle School Chimney - 307 Dublin, OH: Middle School Chimney - ~1300 Sugarland, TX: Commercial Chimney - +3000 Palm Coast, FL: Residential Chimney - 6 Brunswick, ME: See Reports Garland, TX: Residential Chimney - 6 Houston area, TX: Multiple sites Gainesville, FL: 46 Kernersville, NC: Residential Chimney - ~2000 Houston, TX: School Chimney - 130 Memphis, TN: Prison Laundry Chimney - 1022 Austin, TX: Chimney Swift Tower - 16 Southern Pines, NC: Commercial Chimney - 575 Maplewood, MO: School Chimney - “thousands” Galena, KS: School Chimney - 780 Logansport, IN: Commercial Chimney - 200+ Toulon, IL: School Chimney - 316 Healdsburg, CA: School Chimney - ~3000 Vaux’s Jonestown, TX: Old Concrete Cistern - 1235 Nashville, TN: Commercial Chimney - 24 Middleton, NS: Commercial Chimney - 0 Chappell Hill, TX: Res. Chimneys - 22 Westfield Center, OH: School Chimney - 0 Houston, TX: Multiple Sites - 221, 73 Text Box: 2009 GUIDELINES Locate a Chimney Swift or Vaux’s Swift roost in your area. On one night over the weekend of August 7, 8, 9, and / or September 11, 12. 13 you observe the roost starting about 30 minutes before dusk and estimate the number of swifts that enter. When you have your number, contact us with your results. Please include the following: Number of swifts counted Time (and time zone) Date Location Address: city, state/province Broad description of the site, e.g. school, warehouse, residence, Chimney Swift Tower, etc. Weather conditions may also be reported. Email Us! We will continue to update the results through the end of September. Thank you for your support of Chimney Swift conservation. We look forward to hearing from you!
Text Box: For detailed information on each report CLICK HERE Text Box: Pre-event August 7 August 8 August 9 August 10-31 Text Box: September 1– 10 September 11 September 12 September 13 Post-event Text Box: Final Update: 10-05-2009

New Brighton, PA:  15

Atlanta, GA:  Residential Chimney  -  4

Staunton, VA:  School Chimney  -  1500

Newton, NJ:  Hospital Chimney  -  530

Murray, KY:  Commercial Chimney  -  80

Oil City, PA:  ~250, 12

Emlenton, PA:  School Chimney  -  ~425

Kalamazoo, MI:  Residential Chimney  -  270

Homer, LA:  3 Chimney Swift Towers  -  51

Kenosha, WI:  Bar Chimney  -  104

Edinburgh, TX:  Residential Chimney  -  ~75

Elkhart, IN:  School Chimney  -  708

Martinsville, IN:  Comm. Chimney  -  333

Tullahoma, TN:  School Chimney  -  4400

Ashville, NC:  Commercial Chimney  -  +1000

Elizabethtown, KY:  Res. Chimney  -  ~300

Lakeville, MN:  School Chimney  -  327

Abilene, TX:  Residential Chimney  -  57

Lenoir City, TN:  Comm. Chimney  -  483

Southern Pines, NC:  School Chimney  -  439

Gainesville, FL:  Church Chimney  -  420

Webster Groves, MO: School Chimney  -  171

St. Joseph, MO:  School Chimney  -  + 1000

Greenwood, IN:  School Chimney  -  220

Pittsburg, KS:  Multiple Sites  -  1915

Hampton-Sydney, VA:  219 / 71

Banner Elk, NC:  Comm. Chimney  -  140

Galena, OH:  Church Chimney  -  ~1200

Homer. LA:  Multiple Sites  -  390 / 55/ 540

Allentown, PA:  Comm. Chimney  -  40

Southlake, TX:  Res. Chimney  -  ~30

Corpus Christi, TX: 6 / 57 / 110

Lake City, FL:  Comm. Chimney  -  ~200

Greer, SC:  Comm. Chimney  -  720

Baltimore, MD:  Book Bindery  -  3200

Walton Beach, FL:  Res. Chimney  -  1

Dayton, TX:  Old Rice Drier  -  49

Conway, SC:  Res. Chimney  -  ~477

Sugarland, TX:  Res. Chimney  -  +15

Roseburg, OR:  Comm. Chimney  -  17 Vaux’s

Dayton, OH: Comm. Chimney  -  150

Oakwood, OH:  School Chimney  -  330

Shorewood, WI:  Comm. Chimney  -  155

Ridgewood, NJ:  School Chimney  -  1270

Richmond, VA:  Multiple Sites  -  200 / 100

Healdsburg, CA:  Comm. Chimney  -  4500 Vaux’s

Lincoln, VA:  School Chimney  -  ~400 to 500

Shore Acres, TX:  Residential Chimney  -  20

Houston, TX:  Multiple Sites  -  30 / 14 / 77 / 145

Winston-Salem, NC:  Comm. Chimney -  ~3000

White Stone, VA:  Res. Chimney  -  ~400

Cleveland Heights, OH:  School  -  ~  155

Mayfield Heights, OH:  School  -  ~400

Bumpass, VA:  Residence  -  10

 

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