Dear Swift friends, I would like to give my website a name and I invite you to choose it. Pls choose between Commonswift worldwide and Commonswift life Please...
Hello Ulrich, I too vote for commonswift worldwide. Kind regards, Marleen Andriessen bezoek ook onze website: www.gierzwaluwbescherming.nl en wordt lid van de...
Dear Ulrich, Common Swift is correct in English and Commonswift definately incorrect! It is also acceptable and becoming more popular nowadays for species...
Dear Friends & Colleagues, Some great news! Brian Martin, who lives in Warrington in Lancashire, has been working hard to help Swifts living on Brookfield ...
Dear Edward, Swallow here on 24th and now resident in the stable in the field behind us with others passing through. Saw my first House Martin today and heard...
Dear friends, thank you very much for your opinion and support. It is getting close, so I need much more votes! Pls write numerous, the choice is between...
Hi Ulrich, I'd go for commonswiftworldwide! Greetings, Jochem Kuhnen, Beek Ubbergen, the Netherlands www.xjochemx.nl From: Common Swift Sent: Friday, April 03,...
Dear friends, thank you all for the votes. "Worldwide" is the big winner by 70 %. Well done! Now step 2. The word "life" is available for a subtitle or motto...
Hi Ulrich, I'd like "Keeping the life in our skies". Greetings, Jochem Kuhnen, Beek Ubbergen, the Netherlands. www.xjochemx.nl From: Common Swift Sent:...
Jake Allsop and I have made a prototype Swift-box that should be very long-lasting and waterproof. It is very easy to make, so maybe some folk would like to...
Dick Newell
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Apr 4, 2009 7:18 pm
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Dear all, This afternoon I have watched my first three common swifts in the area where I live (Vigo, Galicia, NW Spain, 42º 13´N, 8º 37´W). We have had an...
Hello Jake and Dick, Your new nestbox looks interesting. The only thing I am wondering about is the inside. Did you think of making the inside rough with glue...
Hi Dick, Looks interesting, but do you think Swifts would have trouble with having nothing to brace their tails against? Perhaps a piece of roughened ply...
Hi Marleen, One possibilility is to but a rough, plywood board in the base. The distance between the plywood floor and the entrance would not be very much, and...
Dick Newell
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Apr 5, 2009 9:54 am
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I don't know for sure, Geoff. Swifts can get into holes facing vertically downwards with nothing to support their tail at all. With this design, it is easy to...
Dick Newell
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Apr 5, 2009 10:23 am
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The idea is excellent, but one must think what people might do with such boxes and what might happen with the animals inside, example when the box is fixed...
Thanks Ulrich, I don't know why one would fix the box vertically. A couple of holes drilled in the bottom could provide drainage, though I don't see how water...
Dick Newell
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Apr 5, 2009 10:45 am
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Dick, thank you for the answer. People behave in the same way as Common Swifts do. Without special knowledge or experiences, they do what they always did: in...
Listening to a bird reporting answer machine service today it reports large numbers of swallows and both martins in N Ireland. Last Friday in my town all three...
Congratulations Porfirio, I hope you will have good weather to enjoy all the short time they will be around you. We lost most of the 1st month due to bad &...
Dear Friends I communicate you the order of arrival of our dear birds to my zone of Valencia : Martins: 9/3/09 in l'Alcudia Swallows: 10/3/09 in l'Alcudia ...
Maggie Jarvis reports seeing the first Swifts in Grottamare, on the Adriatic coast of central Italy, on 1st April. By this morning they were numerous and...
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