[Mnbird] Chimney Swift

[Pamela Brustman]

Lovely.
Just lovely,  your use of words to paint that picture.

On Thu, Sep 21, 2023, 8:01 AM Allen Batt via Mnbird <mnbird at lists.mnbird.net>
wrote:

>   I saw a single Chimney Swift yesterday.
>   It strikes me as odd when I see only one. It’s like eating a single
> potato chip. “I can’t see just one,” I tell myself.
>   But for the past several Breeding Bird Surveys, I’ve counted just one
> swift.
>   The surgeon told me to think of a pleasant place before I went under the
> knife. I stared at a chimney in my thoughts. I’m no chimney sweep and
> haven’t even played one on TV, but I travel around each year, hoping for a
> good crop of chimney swifts. When the swifts zoom into a chimney to roost,
> it’s a curtain coming down on a magnificent play. I’ve seen flocks of
> swifts do their disappearing act in many chimneys, but the chimney I
> thought of was the one at Villa Maria that I visited annually for many
> years. Swifts may look like flying cigars, but they are memories on the
> wing. I remember those moments when I need them.
>
> Al Batt
> Freeborn County
>
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