Hi all For the past 2 or 3 days I've had very frequent numbers of screaming parties around the house. Parties have ranged from between 2-10 swifts with each...
Hi all. Im am new to groups and new to helping swifts. Like all of you, I am keen to help these wonderful birds out the best way that i can. I have had loads...
Welcome aboard Dave! Unlike the way they fly, Patience is the key word when it comes to getting into a new nest. Swifts are not in a rush to enter into new...
Hi Amnonn. Thank you for the welcome. I know swifts will not dart into the first available hole they see, it may take years for them to nest in the boxes i...
Hi Dave, This is a very good question, which keeps on rising here. Until we will start ringing as much as possible juvenile Swifts here, and you will catch as...
Hi all. I was mowing the lawn earlier today, it was a hot sunny mornin, approx 11.00am. I was very interested the the reaction of the swifts in our area. They...
Hello Dave, Welcome to SMS ! I don't understand why you don't see your own messages, because your settings are ok (individual e-mails). Do you get our postings...
Well if they scream, I don't think that they are foraging. Anyway it is quite easy to see when they are feeding that low. You can even hear their bills...
Hi Dave, if you have had birds looking already after 1 week that is brilliant progress. It took me 2 yrs of playing calls before birds went in a box and they...
Hi. I now have the ealier problem sorted, many thanx. Dave To: Swallows-Martins-Swifts-Worldwide@yahoogroups.com From: louis.philippe.arnhem@... Date:...
After a great season, with more Common Swifts than usual for all the people I've interviewed here in Tuscany, and after 15 days of enormous "screming parties",...
Giorgio Paesani
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Jul 4, 2009 8:07 am
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Giorgio, thank you for the report from Italy. Nikos from Cyprus just reported also that the CS have left the island. The early brood in my balcony is preparing...
Hello Giorgio, Do you have any photos of any of the holes partially closed by the priests in the old church? Did they mean to make the holes accessible to...
Update on the new RSPB Swift Inventory. ... This is a quote from the lady who is dealing with the data: 'We now have 2778 records entered into the swift...
Hi all I have continuing internet problems so I'm changing for BT to SKY broadband. I have many emails to reply to Some news from recent times. All my 8 chicks...
I think that it is a parent from next doors... the poor chap will have to swallow the food I guess, or expell it. Louis-Philippe ... From: Mark Smyth To:...
Hi Mark, Could you give some more details about that catapult recovery in Africa ? Louis-Philippe Arnhem B-3001 Heverlee (Leuven 33 km E of Brussels) Belgium ...
Another question Mark : are you sure that the adults systematically do not spend the night with their chicks ? At what age (of the chicks) do they start to do...
In my camera box, the adults still come home every night. The chicks are about 24 days old and look not far off full grown, with very little down left on them....
Dick Newell
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Jul 7, 2009 8:12 am
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I will ask for you. Mark From: Swallows-Martins-Swifts-Worldwide@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Swallows-Martins-Swifts-Worldwide@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of ...
Hi all I was wondering what you guys though was the best place to put the holes in external nest boxes, for swifts to enter. The once I have made are on the...
I would suspect that if all the Swifts in your street are using entrances from below, then new, prospecting Swifts will learn from them that the place to look...
Dick Newell
dick.newell@...
Jul 7, 2009 1:34 pm
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It depends on the local habits, but you can change them. Here it took two years (2001-2003) before they really learned to get into boxes, as 90% of the Swifts...
Many thanx for the reply. Am now wondering if I have made the right sort of boxes, but will leave them up untill the Swifts leave, then decide (with...
David Lack's book says that Swifts occupy a nest-box when 1 year old and breed for the first time the following year. I have found a Chris Perrins reference...
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