hi all About a week or ten days ago a lone swift started roosting at night in its nest box. A few days ago its mate arrived and today one of them brought a...
Hi Mark, Great footage, although of course the Swift honours it's name and flies in really fast. There was indeed clearly something very white on that Swift. I...
The video was done using my compact camera. Next week I'm buying a camcorder to get better footage of swifts and their nesting sites. The problem with the...
Hi Mark, I know what you mean when you say the eye could see things more clearly. I don't think buying a camcorder will solve that little problem, the human...
Just returned from watching a beautiful Pallid Swift at Crosby Liverpool. I got there before first light, heard screaming high above (5am) and watched 6...
The ~BBC East Anglia programme, Inside Out, is hoping to do a feature on Swifts in the region. They are hoping to find someone who has an occupied nestbox or...
Hi All, This is to inform you that since yesterday the Aalsmeer Swift webcam nest is occupied and online again. The adress is http://swiftwebcam.blogspot.com...
did it get blown in by the east winds? Mark -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 6 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has...
Dear all, this morning (4-05-2009) at 07.00AM the first Common Swift returned in the Regulierstraat Common Swift Colony. Tired but relaxed......I am happy the...
Great news Hans, they are happy with the new boxes then! Many swifts above my place the last few days but none yet tempted low by the CD - I guess this is good...
Are Swifts returning later this year than normal? In previous years, late April has seen the arrival of established breeders to Bristol, generally arriving in...
According to BTO Birdtrack, yes, things are slow this year - scroll down to the lower two graphs ...
Dick Newell
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May 4, 2009 8:43 am
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Re numbers the pattern is the same here a few early birds around the 20th of april a spike on the 25th of april and then very quiet only two breeding pairs out...
I was really excited only a few days ago because I had seen a couple of swifts over the River Taff in Cardiff.......but as of today our local colony of swifts...
In my town, 7 miles 10km from Brian, swifts have decided to either stay at the lake or go back to Europe. I did have three fly by just as I was arriving home...
Over one of our local wet spots (Ely settling beds), the sky was alive with hirundines, mostly Sand Martins, but plenty of House Martins and Barn Swallows too,...
I just did an hour's sky watching out of my bedroom window, and managed to see about 20 Swifts, some feeding over distant trees, and those that were moving...
Dick Newell
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May 4, 2009 2:25 pm
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Today's pressure chart shows a huge cold front to the South of the British Isles. I wonder if large numbers of Swifts could be stacked up against this? Is...
... Hi Jonathan, I seem to recall reading somewhere that David Lack was of the opinion that Swifts tended to migrate on the trailing edge of low pressure...
- Thanks for all your replies. Your comments confirm that the majority of Swifts haven't arrived yet, and that the low numbers recorded around Bristol are...
Well if there is food, I think that the Swifts are where they have to be. Although you might not see them. There have been much more later arrivings, like in...
Hi folks, may be it helps you to know that there are statements abt "extreme" weather in many reports of the arrival of birds in sources far back to 17hundred...
It's a bit too early to say I think. I have looked back to my records of last year, and it's not much different. Very few Swifts around here, just three seen...
The 'problem' here in N Ireland is that from April 5th to June 21st 2008 we had a 10 week drought with high temperatures. Our swifts loved it. The contrast...
Just now a breeding bird from last year has returned to his/her nest box. The two cameras have been rolling since the weekend. I didn't witness the return Mark...
Dear Swift Friends, There were five or six Swifts screaming overhead this afternoon, that's twice as many as yesterday! The weather isn't really any better....
3 Swifts circling above Skipton, North Yorkshire yesterday evening, the first I have seen above breeding colonies in this region. The last three days have seen...
One of my breeding pair returned to the nest site last night at 20.30. 10 days later than last year but a welcome sight nevertheless. There has also been a...
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