This past weekend we participated in counting chimney swifts as they went to roost. If you are not sure what a chimney swift is you can catch up by reading this past post.
In downtown Athens, there are several large swift roosts, and with hundreds of birds entering one, you can imagine it is a bit hard to count them all, so we also filmed them so we could slow down the video and get an accurate count.
Here is a snippet of video from the Bottleworks roost:
Here is another video taken by the Driftwood Wildlife Association of a roost in Texas. They actually have a video of inside the roost and you can see the swifts settling in. It is really neat so check it out! They start the video off on the outside and then switch to the inside.
