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<dt class="wp-caption-dt"><a rel="attachment wp-att-16387" href="https://swittersb.wordpress.com/2010/10/24/nothin-much-to-do-flight-fest/swift/"><img loading="lazy" data-attachment-id="16387" data-permalink="https://swittersb.com/2010/10/24/nothin-much-to-do-flight-fest/swift/" data-orig-file="https://swittersb.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/swift.jpg" data-orig-size="400,263" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}" data-image-title="swift" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="&lt;p&gt;Vaux&#8217;s Swifts @ Chapman Grade School, Portland, Oregon&lt;/p&gt;
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<p style="text-align:left;"><strong>Interesting, to me, for two reasons: I went to this grade school for two years (1953-54) and I have thousands of <a href="http://audubonportland.org/backyardwildlife/brochures/vauxsswift" target="_blank">Vaux&#8217;s Swifts</a> that inhabit a holly tree orchard behind my house most of the winter. It is intriguing to watch their comings and goings each evening and morning. They go off somewhere for the day to forage and return at dusk, swarming by the thousands over head. Careful as the earth, cars, houses, you?  are bombarded with droppings. Quite the attraction to watch the birds return to the Chapman chimney. I read the birds are suppose to migrate to Central America&#8230;they didn&#8217;t last year. Stayed and pooped on everything all Winter long, then departed in Spring &#8217;til August!<br />
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<p><strong>At another venue with equal fascination for flight..Austin, Tejas&#8230;the <a href="http://austin.about.com/od/austinattractions/p/Bats_in_Austin.htm" target="_blank">evening bat festival at the Congress Street Bridge.</a></strong></p>
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