Hi all,
My colleagues in Species Recovery and Advisory have been highlighting the plight of swifts in recent years and I thought you might like to know the RSPB has just launched the Swift Inventory for 2010. Just visit http://www.rspb.org.uk/thingstodo/surveys/swifts/ for more information.
Swifts need our help and you can do your bit by submitting your sightings of any low-level screaming swift parties you see or if you see them entering a building. If we can find out where they nest, we have a better chance of protecting their nest sites. You can tell us about any number of locations - the swifts you see while out shopping, working, sightseeing or nearer to home in your street or even your house! Just click on the Submit Your Sightings button via the link above.
There are also links to other ways you can help this fascinating species.
Many thanks
Richard Bashford
For more information and to find your nearest Feed the Birds Day events, visit www.rspb.org.uk/feedthebirds
Hi Richard,
I have just heard and seen our first Swifts of the year here in Sawbridgeworth, on the Herts/Essex border. They appear every year here and spotted their nests a couple of years ago......
Fascinating birds to watch as they scream and zoom above us! Unfortunately, nobody else seems to notice!
I have added the location to the Inventory.
Best wishes, Graham
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They realy are amasing birds .
To me they are the sound of summer. I love to watch them dive and scream.
I can sit and watch atleast 3 pair commung and going to and from there nests. Half the time I keep thinking they are going to fast and will hit face first into the wall.
One of my all time fave birds.
Cheers
AL
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Have done so. Not many Swifts, martins or swallows in Hickling. plenty at Pensthorpe and Strumpshaw though. A bit of a worry, hope it's just us.
Coots are fun to watch