A Swift blog

Mark 7 Comments

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It’s the last day of April and I haven’t seen a Swift yet. So I am sitting in the garden looking at the sky.  I’ll tell you tomorrow whether it worked or not.

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7 Replies to “A Swift blog”

  1. Saw my first swift today at Shapwick Heath. I was watching a soaring marsh harrier when the single swift flew past.

    1. Trevor – excellent! I saw my first Swallow this year when watching a very distant Hen harrier in Snowdonia. Snap!

  2. I haven’t seen one either Mark, but every year I see one this weekend without fail.

    That’s done it hasn’t it…….?

  3. Good luck Mark.

    I saw 4 Swifts yesterday at Fairford/Cotswold Water Park plus my first Hobby of the year hawking insects over one of the flooded gravel pits. There was also a colony of Sand Martins setting up home in a poolside sand bank and displaying Little Ringed Plovers.

    My earliest Swifts and Hobby ever I think.

  4. Mark, I saw several on Tuesday, just up the road from you in Irthlingborough.

    1. Chris – well done. Drove through Irthlingboroughthis morning but the sound of my broken exhaust would have scared them away! Now in Wellingborough glancing at the skies.

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