Kelly Mcallister wrote:

> On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Jerry and Sandy Converse wrote, with regard to
> Vaux's Swifts:
>
> > If you check the website below, notice that they enter the chimmney tail
> > first.
>
> You have got to be joking!
>

No I am not joking. Think about it--if they go down head first--and it is
crowded down there, how do they get stopped?? By going down tail first and
hovering, they can slow their desent and grab a ledge.

Long ago I had to go 60 feet down into a 3 foot dia. well casing. I went feet
first. No way I would go down there head first. :-))

Jerry Converse
Grand Coulee, WA