[Travel] Official swift appreciation thread

[Pevenseagull]

I'm delighted to report the first couple of swifts have returned to Sackville Road, Hove. I love them. Watching them in flight is one of natures great spectacles and as their numbers build their screaming parties at dusk fill me with great joy.

If you are lucky enough to have some near you please record your sightings here:

https://www.rspb.org.uk/our-work/co...tainability/safeguarding-species/swiftmapper/

 

[Jim D]

Saw quite a few of them last Thursday
They were flying all over - could have been because of all the pan-banging and clapping.

 

[GT49er]

The Sussex Heights Peregrines are doing well too - hopefully for the swifts they'll stick to pigeons!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EIkX659YOw&feature=emb_logo

 

[Si Gull]

I'm delighted to report the first couple of swifts have returned to Sackville Road, Hove. I love them. Watching them in flight is one of natures great spectacles and as their numbers build their screaming parties at dusk fill me with great joy.

If you are lucky enough to have some near you please record your sightings here:

https://www.rspb.org.uk/our-work/co...tainability/safeguarding-species/swiftmapper/

At least 6 over us yesterday. Sadly not nesting nearby as we're on a new estate but great to see and hear them. One of the sounds of summer.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Swift



The girl Swift done beautiful

 

[AmexRuislip]

I'm delighted to report the first couple of swifts have returned to Sackville Road, Hove. I love them. Watching them in flight is one of natures great spectacles and as their numbers build their screaming parties at dusk fill me with great joy.

If you are lucky enough to have some near you please record your sightings here:

https://www.rspb.org.uk/our-work/co...tainability/safeguarding-species/swiftmapper/

You can see them all the way from Pevensey Bay

 

[*Gullsworth*]

House Martin's......relation of swifts....you can keep them ha ha. I owned a flat in my youth and thought it was fantastic house martin's had started to build a nest by the window in my bedroom.

1) They poo everywhere
2) When the chicks are born they chirp loudly all night.
3) I couldn't open the window because the nest prevented doing so, I roasted that summer.

Apart from that I l loved it but the next few years I hung plastic bags up near the nesting sites ( as everyone else does) to discourage building of nests. It is apparently illegal to knock down nests once built (please correct me if wrong) and I would never destroy one anyway. Real twitcher me but that was a stage too far

 

[Pevenseagull]

You can see them all the way from Pevensey Bay

I migrated west many years ago

 

[BN9 BHA]

House Martin's......relation of swifts....you can keep them ha ha. I owned a flat in my youth and thought it was fantastic house martin's had started to build a nest by the window in my bedroom.

1) They poo everywhere
2) When the chicks are born they chirp loudly all night.
3) I couldn't open the window because the nest prevented doing so, I roasted that summer.

I guess you didn't enjoy one happy hour back then.

 

[*Gullsworth*]

I guess you didn't enjoy one happy hour back then.

I didn't and I was living in a hot, noisy flat, not exactly a caravan of love.