By Keta (Detail of Apus_apus_flock_flying.jpg) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia CommonsIt’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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Saw my first swift today at Shapwick Heath. I was watching a soaring marsh harrier when the single swift flew past.
Trevor – excellent! I saw my first Swallow this year when watching a very distant Hen harrier in Snowdonia. Snap!
I haven’t seen one either Mark, but every year I see one this weekend without fail.
That’s done it hasn’t it…….?
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.
Mark, I saw several on Tuesday, just up the road from you in Irthlingborough.
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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Saw my first swift today at Shapwick Heath. I was watching a soaring marsh harrier when the single swift flew past.
Trevor – excellent! I saw my first Swallow this year when watching a very distant Hen harrier in Snowdonia. Snap!
I haven’t seen one either Mark, but every year I see one this weekend without fail.
That’s done it hasn’t it…….?
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.
Mark, I saw several on Tuesday, just up the road from you in Irthlingborough.
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.
You’re not alone.
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