Hi Tweeters,

I was driving home today from Eastern Washington with my mind adrift. I went to the Swift Night Out this year and it was great! I was thinking about it and....

Chimney saftey has been brought up, I wondered as the miles were passing, why can't some sort of buffer be placed below the chimney like the stunt man cushions, then if the chimney tumbles the bricks would be less destructive and unless the cushions are hugely thick they won't be an eyesore.

How have they buttressed up all of the other brickwork? That school is loaded with bricks, and nice brickwork too.

Kathy
Roosting in Kent, near Lake Meridian
(chukarbird at yahoo dot com)
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--- On Sun, 9/13/09, Diann MacRae <tvulture at vei.net> wrote:

> From: Diann MacRae <tvulture at vei.net>
> Subject: [Tweeters] Swift Night Out
> To: Tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Date: Sunday, September 13, 2009, 10:16 AM
> Hi, Tweets
>
> Swift Night Out at the Wagner School in Monroe was another
> great success. I don't know the people count, but it was at
> least as much, probably more, than last year's 800+. Bill
> and I were the night's counters and the total for Vaux's
> swifts was 3,649. Not the highest, but they always put on a
> great show. A small flight of Canada geese flew over the
> school chimney and through the clouds of swifts and a voice
> from the crowd said "are they going down the chimney?!!" It
> was a fun night.
>
> Cheers, Diann
>
> Diann MacRae
> Olympic Vulture Study
> 22622 - 53rd Avenue S.E.
> Bothell, WA 98021
> tvulture at vei.net
>
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