Today after work Emily and I joined Annie, Thomas, Jon and others at the Chapman School in Northwest Portland for our first time watching the swifts there. According to Nate, whose birthday it also was, there weren't as many this year as previous years because of the dry summer or something. Still, it was pretty cool to see them circle around in a huge twisting mass trying to find a way down into the school's chimney for a night. Unfortunately for them, there was a small hawk perched on the rim just waiting to pick off the first few that tried. A brave swift sacrificed itself and got nabbed by hawk allowing all the others to swirl down like a cloud of smoke re-entering the chimney for the night. It took about 20 minutes for the hundreds and hundreds of swifts to all finally get into the chimney. It was pretty cool to see and definitely something we plan on taking my mom to when she moves out here.
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