Bob, no need to be embarassed. None of us were born experts :) Chimney Swifts are common summer breeding residents in the eastern half of North America. Birds of the World says: "Chimney Swifts are most noticeable during migration, when birds numbering in the thousands circle in large tornado-like flocks above roosting chimneys at dusk, and then suddenly descend in ever-narrowing vortices into their depths to spend the night"....and that "this swift nested in hollow trees in mature forests until the arrival of European settlers whose chimneys presented a multitude of artificial nesting cavities".
KannanFt. Smith
On Sunday 28 September, 2025 at 02:40:22 pm GMT-5, Robert Day <rhday52...> wrote:
I hate to sound like an idiot, but is it a Chimney Swift colony or a migratory roost? I have never even seen a Chimney Swift in this state, I’m embarrassed to say, so I have assumed that these birds are here only on migration. Is this roost near downtown?
Bob DaySW Bentonville
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On Sep 28, 2025, at 3:51 AM, David Chapman <dchapman1245...> wrote:
The Chimney Swift colony in downtown Rogers is one of the few highlights of the AVOCA Breeding Bird Survey Route (established by Doug James in the 1950s) that is now degraded in many sections by the advent of urban spread (highways, bypasses, building construction etc.).
