Photo from WIkimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nWhen they aren’t hanging out in chimney’s the Chimney Swift will take to the skies.\u00a0\u00a0Normally, you will hear the high-pitched twittering (no, they are not actually Tweeting while they fly – although, i wonder what they would say with their 140 character limit) as they fly high above the city feasting on insects. In fact, these birds spend pretty much all of their time flying and will generally only land at their nest or to roost for the night. \u00a0The Chimney Swift will even bathe while in flight! How is this possible? \u00a0Well, while flying around they will dive towards a lake or other body of water, crashing their chest onto the surface of the water before shaking the water off of their feathers as they fly away. \u00a0I would think that doing a belly flop every time you want to bathe would get tiresome and painful after awhile.<\/p>\n
I guess it is time to crawl out of the chimney and brush off all of this soot. \u00a0As promised, since you read today’s fact, I will give you a free one tomorrow. \u00a0Make sure you stop by because it will be a good one to end the week with. \u00a0Enjoy the rest of your day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After spending yesterday underground chasing after moles, I figured we would head back to the sky today to observe an interesting bird called the Chimney Swift. \u00a0Now, today’s Wild Fact was inspired by my dad who was telling me about a story he saw on the news. \u00a0Apparently there were about 150 of these birds that were flocking to the chimney of a school in Nova Scotia or something like that. \u00a0Sorry Dad, I don’t think I was actually listening too well :). Regardless of my listening skills, I figured it was the Chimney Swift he was talking about so <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4024],"tags":[348,381,46,1969,1970,1971,4025,1972],"yoast_head":"\n
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