The event took place at a back lane of two rows of shop houses located parallel with Jalan Post Office Lama and Ridel hotel.
I woke up as early as 6.00am and waited for the famous swiftlet Olympic marathon to begin.
For my record it started around 6.30am. In the beginning only a few but within a few short minutes the number swelled to a few hundreds a minute. There were a total of about 20 exits and you can imagine the numbers oozing out of all the BHs.
Before that I was talking to a guy employed to look after the place every night. He indicated that normally the birds will keep flying out for almost one hour until 7.30am.
For the observation day, September 2nd 2008, the number slowed down by about 7.10am, short of 20 minutes.
By 7.30 am nothing happened but some were flying back towards the BHs.
These might be the young birds or those adult birds that have babies in their nests.
They seem to enjoy flying in and out of the entrance holes and I believed they love those sound being played.
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