This week is the first ever UK Swift Awareness Week, a brilliant initiative which aims to highlight the plight of these amazing birds.
When I look up at swifts screaming through the skies over my house in Cambridge, it seems that they live in an altogether different world to our own. They have an almost exclusively airborne existence, coming in to land only to nest. Swifts eat, sleep, drink, feed, bathe and mate on the wing…