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[September 22, 2006] Last night six of us from the hostel took a field trip to the northwest, to see the largest colony of Vaux's Swifts in the world.


If you click on that photo, those little black specks you see? Those are birds. Somewhere around 20,000 of them, who live in the chimney of Chapman Elementary School every September as they migrate south. Every evening in September, as the sun is setting, they gather around the chimney, and after flying all the fuck around for a while, they fly down the chimney to roost for the night, spiraling down into it like a whirlpool of birds.

Lots of people come to watch the Swifts every night.

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bird watching , animals , portland