If my memory serves me right, I think it was a King vulture. Dick On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Horatio Clare <horatioclare@...> ... [Non-text...
Dick Newell
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Jun 1, 2008 9:47 am
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Thanks Mike! Looking forward to seeing the photos of the purple martins "beehiving"! I was lucky enough to see our local swifts doing their "swirling cloud"...
have erected 4 boxes around house 2 at front and back , using the calls cd i have attracted swifts from a coloney about 300 yards from my house . today at 13...
Gareth is using the Zeist style box. So now starts the competition between you and your dad! Can you email me some photos of your set up? Mark ... From:...
I don't get how you guys in Northern Ireland have so much luck with the CD yet for others of us in various places they don't seem to take much notice. Maybe...
Nick if only we knew why it is so good here. Maybe we should organise an informal meeting over here next year? The lake, Lough Neagh, is well known for it's...
Hi Gareth, Congratulations with your great success! I would say enjoy their stay, but I'm pretty sure you'll do that wheter I say it or not... ;) Greetings,...
Lough Neagh sounds amazing Mark. Travelling over to you wouldn't be easy though for those of us who don't fly (looks like the choice is either train up to...
It's not all great over here. I'm not having good luck with my birds this year. Last year I ended up with 5 pairs all building nests but only one pair fledging...
Hi Mark, I wonder where the non breeders are sometimes as well. I've had some good action going on here in response to the Swift calls cd, but for the past...
Is there something strange going on with Swifts this year. The amount of screaming activity is way below what I am used to. Visits to known colonies in...
Dick Newell
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Jun 3, 2008 7:34 am
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new pair this morning into schwegler no 17 box suspected they had been going in for last few days, both went in at 8.55am still in.CD playing every morning...
... Dick, Thank you very much for posting this link. I was very impressed with Carter's reasoning, but then lost the link and couldn't find it again. Thanks ...
I have replied to Mark privately Dick On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Matonge Swifts <matongeswifts@...> ... [Non-text portions of this message have been...
Dick Newell
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Jun 3, 2008 9:21 am
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... colonies ... back, but ... commented on ... Hi Dick, Remember the reports coming from Africa about millions of Swallows being found dead because of the bad...
I just think that it is due to the bad weather in southern Europe (France, Spain). When that wil improve, you will see some non-breeding Swifts coming. Here...
Hi all Back at the end of April I had 17-25 birds flying around the house. Now I'm lucky if I can get double figures. I know most must now be on nests with...
hi nick, yes i think the lake has alot to do with it , in the early afternoon they seem to disappear i have been told by brian that they go to lake and various...
no problem mark will send you a few pics and some of the nearby colony , gareth--- In Swallows-Martins-Swifts- ... calls ... the ... the ... result ! i ... to...
Hi Gareth, Indeed, I too would like to see the pics. Maybe you can ask Louis-Philippe to put them in the photo-section, or maybe you could upload them to some...
Everybody can upload pictures on the SMS site. But if you want I can upload them for you. Just send me a personal mail with the attachment (no pdf). ...
Hallo Swift Fans! We have our first chicks here! Hatching began in one nest on Monday. Yesterday there were chicks in another 8 nests. This is over a week...
hi Mark Can you explain where you swifts are nesting? When you mentioned a bridge I expected a stone bridge. How deep are the holes the swifts have to climb...
Dear Friends, Like you know I use to catch "banders" swifts, from some years now, regarding the lackness of screaming, for me, is depending from the delay of...
Hello Mark, Here I had the first young on monday too and today the second one. There is plenty of food, they refuse to eat because the parents come with too...
This morning I had a visitor in box 2 and box 3. A common swift. Especially in box 3 he/she felt very happy and started to produce his noise to seduce a future...
huge influx of non breeders today, about twenty around house one nest box moved from front of house at 1.00 pm to side of house, (schwegler no 17) swift into...
Hi All, I've studied countless internet sites and read everything that I've been able to lay hands on about Swifts, but have never seen anything relating to...
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