I just discovered a video about swifts in an eBay auction. I don't know this video but maybe someone has interest and wants to check it out. The format is...
Here in Oxford we have an adult sitting on an egg, another box has 2 naked blind young hatched this last week and there is also a box with 2 young that are...
Hello Martin and others, With reference to the 'nice dutch swift-online webcam' I can tell you that the Computer House Mijdrecht has one of the camera's which...
In a message dated 29/07/2004 22:10:33 GMT Standard Time, ... He used to shake them out on to a white sheet that he had spread on the kitchen table. Wife? A...
hi all Looks like the Swift population where I work has gone. Yesterday their were many flying just within sight enjoying the hot day and possible flying ant...
Swift fans, Here in Louvain I still observed approximatively 50 of them above the crowded colony of the "Pauscollege" (18th century edifice named after the ...
Did anyone ever made a picture of swifts mating in flight? And what are the best publications about this phenomenon? Thank you for any help :-) ! Martin...
Hello Marleen, this is a wonderful project you have started in the netherlands, my congradulations! :-) Even on the webcam you can see each single parasite in...
Hi Martin, We only started one year ago and I'm sure you can believe that it's not easy to find people who have these nests. This year however we had 20...
Dear Friends, One way of amassing lots of insects to feed young Swifts with is to trap flies. The way I have used (when I kept frogs) is to get a large wide ...
There is a discussion on the Martinets-Hirondelles forum about gatherings of Martins (and Swallows) near or on asphalted roads or warm walls in the sun. I...
The Oxford webcam is still live with two of our boxes that still contain small young. The single chick is now 2 weeks old and the pair is about 3 weeks old....
Hi, Down here in Malaga province, S Spain, both the Pallids and Common Swifts have been pulling out for at least 10 days and numbers are well down, although I...
Andrew Paterson
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Aug 4, 2004 5:17 pm
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Hi, Until this year, the only known pair of Little Swifts breeding in western Europe have been those at the rather atypical site at Bolonia, Cadiz province, SW...
Andrew Paterson
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Greetings, As the nesting season for Chimney Swifts draws to a close, these aerial acrobats begin to gather in large communal roosts. For several years now we...
From Florence (Tuscany, Italy), common swift moved on 1st august. Only yesterday, during a storm, I saw a single swift in a flock of Delichon urbica. Pallid...
Giorgio Paesani
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Dear Friends, I was in Italy for the past week, and late on Monday I saw hundreds of House Martins Delichon urbica flying up to the walls of the castle at...
The very late first brood attempt of swifts in Regensburg seems to be lucky until now: yesterday I could see by webcam the first chick and an empty eggshell,...
I did upload some good swift-webcamlinks to our yahoo's group link section. Look on the left side of our group's navigation bar for "Links"... martin...
Edward and all Roosting on the ground by Sand Martins is nothing new, it happens every spring at Farmoor in Oxfordshire on the concrete reservoir causeway;...
hi all You may recall that recently I mentioned a stone library which was re-pointed losing dozens of swift nest holes. I now have some photos of the building....
... while others tried and often failed to join them.< Edward, Was this wall very exposed to the sun at that time of the day ? Because here I saw exactly the...
Forwarded message from Ulrich Tigges (Berlin, Germany). I take the opportunity to say that I still observed tonight (08/08/2004) my couple of Swifts feeding...
... Photography)" <birds@o...> wrote: Hi all A small flock of Alpine Swifts was flying over the Guesthouse in Stellenbosch where my wife works. Around 13:00. ...
hi all I was out looking at bats tonight and saw a couple of Swifts enter a hole. I went for a closer look and could hear they were feeding chicks. Mark N...
Since yesterday I use a small programm on my PC to store every minute a picture of the swift nestwebcam in Regensburg (this nest where a chick hatched at 5....
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