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Are the record breaking swifts back, yet?.
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Grounded swiftlets
Message from Tom [08:46 24/05/2023]
A friend just found these in her front garden. They look like swifts. What do we do?
Swift
Data collected by researchers from Lund University in Sweden show that common swifts spend almost their entire 10 month non-breeding period in continuous flight. Nearly all of the swifts returning to nest sites in and around Trowbridge this summer from their winter home in sub-Saharan Africa will have been in flight non-stop since they left us last year.
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The record breaking swifts are back from their winter feeding grounds.
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by David Feather
If you read my earlier piece about John Stimpson, who made nesting boxes for swifts, you might be interested in helping these little birds. Advice is available through https://www.swift-conservation.org/ and there is a Bristol and Avon representative.
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Another activist working for wildlife
by David Feather
Some people have rare qualities that make them stand out from the crowd. John Stimpson is one of those people. After retiring he got very interested in helping swifts to recover their numbers. Thirteen years ago he started making nest boxes for swifts in his garage at home. Initially he was making three a day. Now aged 80, he is making about 30 each day.
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The record breaking swifts are back from their winter feeding grounds.
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Southwick Country Park Nature Reserve 