Source: Lake Geneva Regional News  Remove Images  A night for
the birds But the guests of honor decided not to come  by John
Halverson  September 27, 2012  I envisioned a scene from "The
Birds."  As I walked to the Geneva Lake Museum for the Chimney
Swift event last Thursday night, I half expected a few winged
creatures perched ominously on telephone wires like they did in
Alfred Hitchcock's movie.  Not so.  Then hoards storming the
chimney in such numbers that they'd form a funnel-shaped swarm.
Not that either.  Nary a Chimney Swift in sight. Nor a hawk or
even a robin. I didn't even see a crow, which are said to be in
even the most inhospitable climates...  By the time I reached
the museum there were plenty of people.. Sixty or so crowded
into a meeting room barely large enough to hold them. Included
were the mayor, the city administrator, the director of public
works and a least one city councilmen. Almost a quorum. With
more citizens than you get at a city budget meeting.  My
girlfriend seemed a bit flig