Mark, from your clip it looks windy and dull- I struggle to even see a Swift around colonies here in Yorkshire in such conditions. I think the forecast is for...
Jonathan at 5.30am there isn't much light and on top of that I was using my digital camera video setting. The shake was due to the camera being hand held....
Does this mean that one of each pair , presumably the male(?) decides on a nesting area before attracting a mate? Sorry I phrased this very badly! You said...
Hi Jonathan, Perhaps last years bangers were put off returning to parts of the UK where they experienced the worst of 2007's awful weather. That might ...
Just now I have uploaded two new videos to Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6xOtLm8pkM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSh_YeHtc1E I am having great...
I think that either the male or the female can decide to settle. When they are old enough they begin to attract a mate. Not by screaming, but by flying and...
There is much actvity around my gable tonight, 10.40pm, as I write. All birds are home for the night but the screamers are very excited outside. Watching my...
Also here in Landbeach. As usual, Swift activity is synchronous over large distances. Dick Landbeach, Cambridge On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 10:39 PM, Mark Smyth...
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Here in Yorkshire too- the best evening activity this year with some new birds around. Incredible flying display and loads of screaming ahead of very heavy...
I'm just home from doing a bat survey at a church that will soon have it's roof redone and all external walls repointed. The church dating from mid 1800s and...
Hi Mark, You don't say what's going to happen to the Swifts! In my experience these grants usually end up funding the Kiss of Death to the resident Swifts as...
we have all read that during poor weather swifts are supposed to fly ahead of weather fronts. Here in N Ireland we have had very heavy rain most of today....
Today from about 11am we had absolutely horrenduous weather violent thunder storms 30mm of rain in an hour or so .It cleared at approx 2.30pm instantly swifts...
A few minutes ago I came in from watching my swifts coming home for the night. My camera pair had not come home so I started the video recording just in case I...
Just teasing by making everyone wait over night. For my Schwegler 16 it's straight in and the brake is the back of the box. Totally amazing. It happens in a...
Hi Mark, Like Edward, I'm curious about the future of these Swifts! Have you been able to secure the nestplaces for the future? Greetings, Jochem Kuhnen, Beek...
Hi Mark, last year we were left with just adults coming and going with food from 23rd June to 8th July. During this time much rain, but also breezy with...
Hi Mark, My experience is that they fly behind thunderstorms. Here in London in autumn (September) we get quite a few thunderstorms, and on several occasions I...
I am not sure where the story of Swifts flying hundreds of miles to avoid thunder came from. It may have been in Lack's book, he has a whole chapter on weather...
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hi all I just got this email from the RSPB in N Ireland Mark "The RSPB has always concentrated efforts on species 'nearest the edge' - and consequently in...
Hi Mark, Perhaps a stupid question, but what meeting is "this meeting" in the email you quoted? Greetings, Jochem Kuhnen, Beek (Ubbergen), the Netherlands. To:...
Hi Nick, I think it is some kind of caged bird. It sounds like something tropical, not like something that'd be flying around in the wild in Ireland. ...
Hi Mark, That's good news for swifts in Ireland. What is puzzling is that from the anecdotal evidence so far this year, Northern Ireland seems to have more...
Firstly the non-breeding swifts here were prospecting like crazy. I've had a feeling for a while they prefer the highest buildings in their area and they were...
Hi Mark and others, I asked Oscar Gordo from Spain about the situation there. Oscar wrote about the influence of weather and climate in phenology (see...
Hi everyone, I have been reading your debates about the lack of swifts and can say that our small colony does seem to be quite good these year, about 20 birds....
Two days ago I read Lack's chapter on weather movements again. Briefly, it says that large weather movements occur in the SE corner of an advancing depression,...
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