Hello George and SMW members Thanks for the information, I guess that living where I do the thought that swifts are largely dependant on human habitation for...
That's the experience here in the urban and suburban areas of Canada and the US also. Most martins, swallows and swifts build nests in or on human made...
Hi fellows, We have mainly aired attic under the roof (empty place), where swifts nesting. The nests are often on top of coverlayer and it's guite difficult to...
Hi, Saw my first Common Swift this year feeding over Almond Valley Heritage Park near Livingston, Edinburgh, on 29th April, about lunch- time. It was a lovely...
Hi, My name is David Ferguson and I am a Countryside Ranger with Dundee City Council in Scotland. In 2001 the City Council joined forces with Concern For...
Welcome David ! Very interesting. I am making a list of all (well I try), the Apus apus here in Leuven. I started last year and found over a hundred nesting...
Welcome to the group Dave, Wonderful work that you seem to doing. I will probably be travelling to Scotland next year to the Tatto, if there is a chance I...
Here's a welcome from the Pacific coast of Canada, Vancouver to be precise. I am just a hobbiest at birding in general- have been all my life. Over the past...
Hi Trevor, I would be only too glad to show you our work so far - although it is only early days yet, but email me when your arriving and maybe we can sort...
Hi Glenn, Thanks for the welcome. Do you get many Common Swifts in and around Vancouver? Regards Dave. ... This email and any files transmitted with it is...
Hi George and all This afternoon I downloaded onto the SMS a map showing the distribution of Common Swift, and into a folder called "Habitat" a photograph of a...
Hi, Louis-Phillippe: Referring to the migrants, I did not say that they were absent, only that the migration had been a slow trickle without any massive...
Andrew Paterson
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May 1, 2005 5:29 pm
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Oh sorry, misinterpretation. Still very interesting to know. Louis-Philippe Arnhem B-3001 Heverlee (Leuven 33 km E of Brussels) Belgium ...
Hello everyone, First Common Swifts are back in the Eilenbergcolony. In the morning of 30-04 at 08:50 the first Common Swift is coming back in nest box 10. In...
Dear Friends, I've just seen my first UK Swifts of the year. On Friday night (19th April) at St Mary's Church in Rye, East Sussex, and today Sunday 1st May, in...
Edward meant 29th of course... "Whoops! Too late! Too tired! Yes, 29th 29th 29th! All the best, Edward" Louis-Philippe Arnhem B-3001 Heverlee (Leuven 33 km E...
Hi All!! Yesterday I visited "my" Pallid swift (Apus pallidus) colony in the Tower of Calfuria, near Livorno (Tuscany, Central Italy), most of pairs has...
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May 2, 2005 7:50 am
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Hi Henk, thank you for the nice information. Can you assure that the Swift did not enter the evening beofre, I mean, did you/did the machine check the previous...
It was a treat to read information below. Very dedicated you must me to study the move ments and activity with the swifts. I did a similar study with a video...
Hi Ulrich, You write: Can you assure that the Swift did not enter the evening beofre, I mean, did you/did the machine check the previous night/day? Yes, the...
Regarding Swift nest sites: looked at from the Swifts' point of view, nearly all the nest sites available to them in London or indeed anywhere in the UK or...
Latest Swift sightings from some friends: 27/4/05 First sighting - Swifts seen over Denby Dale, Yorkshire UK 2/5/05 First sighting - Swifts seen over...
This evolution can actually be observed with the Alpine Swift. At the French Martinets-Hirondelles forum there has been said that Apus melba is not only more...
Hi Edward et al., I strongly suspect that the swift population over 1.000 years since was considerably less than it is now and that their heyday was very...
Andrew Paterson
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May 3, 2005 5:33 am
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A friend of ours, Tom Gullick, who runs highly respected birding trips in Spain, has just told us that he has two places left on one of his Pyrenees trips....
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