Swift Watch

We have heard from many people around town about this old elementary school in Portland that has around 40,000 swift birds come and sleep in the chimney each night, but only during the month of September. Lots of people come each night and sit on the grass and watch them gather and fly down into the chimney around dusk. So we decided to check it out. We got our dinner and had a little picnic on the grass and waited for the swifts to come. I really didn't get a picture of the crowd but there was a ton of people there (it was one of a few days in September that had no rain.)

I only got a video of them gathering because it was really dark by the time they flew into the chimney.