While walking back through the park with the dogs I heard the sound of summer - about 30 or so swifts flying in the sky above us! They all suddenly appeared as if from no where! Great to see them back!
Millie & Fly the Border Collies
Hi KatTai
Ours returned here in numbers over the weekend I just love the sound and sight of them and your right its great to have them back.
Regards Shane
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Swifts returned to my district on 4 May 2012. Not as many as there were 30 years ago, which is how long I have lived here.
I delight in them screaming down the back gardens at roof top level or screaming over my house as I clean my teeth in the morning. That's how I know they nest here abouts but I've never been able to discover where. Until this year ...............
But here in suburbia not a stone's throw away from my property I saw a Swift duck under a roof tile of one of the houses opposite mine. What joy! What did I do first? Yep, that's right. I called the RSPB Swift ''department'' and gave them an address for a Swift's nesting site. A small heap of something white spotted through my 'bins' on the gutter confirmed my sighting.