Calling all Swifties! 🗣️ Chimney Swifts are back in town, and you could catch their spectacular show at a chimney near you! ✨ The small, fast-flying birds are known for the tornado-like dance they perform in the sky. Brenna Marsicek is the director of outreach with the Southern Wisconsin Bird Alliance (@swibirds). She says that at dusk, the birds will dive headfirst into a chimney to roost — sometimes by the thousands. 🐦🪶 Lake Effect’s Xcaret Nuñez spoke with Marsicek for this month’s Chirp C

Do you hear this sound coming from your chimney? Congratulations! 🔊🎉 Vaux’s Swifts have chosen your home to raise their young. Though these baby birds are loud, your chimney is an important resource for the species’ success due to the loss of their natural habitat (old-growth forest). But don’t worry. The noise only lasts two or so weeks. What do you do if one falls to the bottom of your chimney? Swifts attach stick nests to chimney walls using saliva. And the babies have velcro-like feet that