Roads End Naturalist

Exploring the natural world as we wander at the end of the road


Tag: chimney swifts

  • A Swirl of Swifts

    Their twittering notes and whizzing wings create a musical, but wild, continued roar. The twittering, whizzing roar continues to increase; the revolving circle fast assumes a funnel shape, moving downward until the point reaches the hollow in the stub, pouring its living mass therein until the last bird dropped out of sight. ~Chief Pokagon, of Read more…