Presenter: Zumbro Valley Audubon Society

Chimney Swifts are charcoal-colored, tiny but mighty, feathered friends beneficial to our environment. They long to rest in a chimney after a long day’s work in flight from dawn to dusk. They consume 12,000 flying insects per day. Their menu consists of gnats, mosquitoes, and biting flies. Since 1966, they have been a species-in-decline. Because of climate-changing temperatures, pesticides, and fewer and farther between chimneys, the Swifts also are having to adapt. On this night, the Zumbro Valley Audubon Society will sit to count the birds as they descend the Assisi Heights Boiler building chimney.