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31-07-2007, 09:45 PM
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| | Swifts In South-East London I have seen swifts quite commonly in Greenwich, around 30 times so far plus two 'screaming parties'. How many have you seen? | 
31-07-2007, 10:23 PM
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| | | Re: Swifts In South-East London loads.
But i do live in a rural area..but not sure this will make too much difference? | 
01-08-2007, 04:51 AM
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| | | Re: Swifts In South-East London A couple of weks back I counted c60 at the end of my road over the allotments. More regularly I see up to c30.
Sad thing is they'll all be gone within a couple of weeks + yet it feels as summer is only just starting! I wonder how their breeding season has gone with so much cool + wet weather, making aerial insects more difficult to find? | 
01-08-2007, 06:55 AM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Letchworth Garden City
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| | | Re: Swifts In South-East London They are all over the place here. Regular screaming parties over the garden and I see (or hear) them almost every time I go out. | 
01-08-2007, 09:31 AM
| | Frozen | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Buxton Spa, Derbyshire
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| | | Re: Swifts In South-East London Here in Buxton Spa there are plenty of swifts, they come screaming round my house, sometimes at head height, a wonderful sight. They arrived two days late this year, on May 3rd. Shame that they will be going soon | 
01-08-2007, 11:30 AM
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| | | Re: Swifts In South-East London One of my favourite sounds and signs of summer. I too will miss them when they've gone. I counted around 50 one early evening (North Kent) but usually no more than a dozen or so and some days none at all. They do move around a lot ahead of the weather though | 
02-08-2007, 03:12 PM
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| | | Re: Swifts In South-East London We had quite a few from May onwards but just lately I've only seen a couple very high in the sky. Perhaps they've moved on early after the poor weather we've had... I miss them! | 
02-08-2007, 03:45 PM
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| | | Re: Swifts In South-East London Sadly the numbers around me have drastically gone down. I reported earlier in the year that from where I live to where I work (Coventry to Leamington) I normally passed 4 colonies of Swifts and yet there were none this year.
Thankfully a few (less than ten) have appeared at the first colony. The next two colonies have not appeared and the last Colony (near where I work) has drastically reduced from the norm of 50+ to single figures this year.
Sadly, as aeshna5 has said, these Swifts will be departing our shores soon.
John | 
02-08-2007, 03:55 PM
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| | | Re: Swifts In South-East London I haven't seen so many this year and last year, I thuoght it might be because I moved last spring and they just aren't so common here anyway but maybe there are less everywhere? | 
02-08-2007, 10:11 PM
| | Frozen | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: march, cambridgeshire
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| | | Re: Swifts In South-East London Quote:
Originally Posted by smartie They are all over the place here. Regular screaming parties over the garden and I see (or hear) them almost every time I go out. | same here i live in the fens. |  | | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes | Linear Mode |
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