Dear Swift Friends, I saw my first Swifts yesterday, two birds flying over Taunton in Devon, South West England, which I was passing through in a train at...
Hi Edward Don't feel bad, here in Durban we also have no Swifts today, and it is also cold, and began raining heavily yesterday afternoon, and has done so...
Hi, This morning at the local reserve, several hundred Common Swifts were feeding intensively in the area. Some rain is forecast for Wednesday (probably a sick...
Andrew Paterson
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May 1, 2006 12:34 pm
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Dear Friends, I've just seen my very first London Swift of 2006. One bird flying North at about 100 metres high, over the gardens behind our apartment at...
... Good to hear about your success in getting the vicar to let you look after the Swifts. I'd leave them well alone for the current nesting season. The birds...
While making a Swift-box in my garage I heard the briefest of calls. I stepped outside just in time to see my breeding pair from last year disappear into their...
Great, Dick ! The Swifts of my Obs-box came back this morning around 6:50 CET ! Both of them. I had to leave to go to work so I recorded the first hours. They...
Hi all, This evening about 17 common swifts returned to their summer adress in Aalsmeer,the Netherlands. That is exactly one week after the first two appeared....
Hello swift-freinds, today, 2.5. in the morning lots of swift were flying and screaming in the sky here in Offenbach near Frankfurt/Main. This went on all over...
Louis-Philippe it is a UK postcode. The first two letters and numbers indicate the town. The last three are the street. It works out to be Cullompton in Devon...
Partly forwarded mail (May 2nd) from Erich Kaiser, Kronberg, Germany. Louis-Philippe ... From: Erich Kaiser To: Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 9:24 PM Subject:...
I am rather surprised at the degree of synchrony of the arrival of Swifts at their breeding colonies over a fairly wide area of the UK and Europe, including at...
Hello Edward, Interestingly, swifts are a little late returning this year and they are around one week later than normal here in Bedfordshire. I am originally ...
Hello Dick, Also in my country May 2nd is the arrival day of a great number of swifts. Many people called me to say the swifts had returned. Also camera...
I checked www.birdingzeeland.nl and noted that on May 2nd 6565 common swifts passed Breskens, the most southwestern town of the Netherlands, and 24875 ...
Hi folks, today I saw the first Swifts in Berlin 2006, they appeared at 9.30 a.m. and I could see them more or less for the whole time until now, afternoon. ...
Hello everyone First parties of screaming swifts herd in West Oxfordshire today at three locations. We will be checking the OUM tower Saturday to see what has...
Hello everyone This is the link to the OUM Swift data page, the pdf document is worth reading. http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/news/swifts/index.htm George Candelin...
Hello everyone! I am happy to say that here in Moenchengladbach our common swifts have also arrived! Moenchengladbach is located between Duesseldorf and Koeln,...
Hi all, Swifts arrived in my home area yesterday (2nd) but it wasn't until today (3rd) that a Swift entered one of the four nestboxes on my house. Time was...
great to hear everyone has their swifts back home. Hopefully I can have a nesting pair by next year. N Ireland been very cold and wet since Sunday keeping...
Hello Kristina, Welcom to the forum. Did you locate the hole where the swift fell through? Can you close it or attach a box so they can breed in the box? Kind...
I think it's remarkable that at so many locations in Europe so many swifts seem to have come back almost at the same time. Can't remember it has been so during...
You are right Martin. I remarked this phenomenon last year when reading the arrivals in France. This is even more remarkable since I thought that southern...
after 6 days of almost continuous rain we now have a bright cloudless sky but more rain later. I've been outside to look for swifts and two are doing close fly...
Dear Lorene, You can find a lot of information on how to raise young Swifts on our web site at http://www.londons-swifts.org.uk/SwiftFirstAid.htm Good luck! ...
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