Chimney Swift Sit (In Person)

August 22, 7:30-9:00pm (Rain Date: August 23, 7:30-9:00pm)

Donations Appreciated | Location: Assisi Heights (1001 14th Street NW, Rochester, MN 55901) Click here for map.

Chimney Swifts are charcoal-colored, tiny but mighty, feathered friends beneficial to our environment. They long to rest in a chimney after a long day’s work in flight from dawn to dusk. They consume 12,000 flying insects per day. Their menu consists of gnats, mosquitoes, and biting flies. Since 1966, they have been a species-in-decline. Because of climate-changing temperatures, pesticides, and fewer and farther between chimneys, the Swifts also are having to adapt. On this night, the Zumbro Valley Audubon Society will sit to count the birds as they descend the Assisi Heights Boiler building chimney.

Welcome to this in person program at Assisi Heights! Please refrain from attending if experiencing any symptoms of COVID-19 or other illness or have been exposed to any persons infected with COVID-19. Please park in the lot in front of Assisi Heights and enter through the main entrance.