Swifts need our help

Mech1

A Swift just flew into my garage in Monkstown, Dublin, circled inside of the garage 4 times while chirping loudly and just as promptly left!

swifts need our help!

That'll be a swallow looking for a nest site. I want them in my shed but they never look

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I'd put money on them being Swallows.

mayo.mick

Here's some video from when they arrived near me in 2015. No sign of them yet,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRti9Q9rJfo

DellyBelly

Mech1 wrote: »

A Swift just flew into my garage in Monkstown, Dublin, circled inside of the garage 4 times while chirping loudly and just as promptly left!

As others said that was probably a swallow

Del.Monte

First Swifts of the season in Enniscorthy tonight - lots of them and already at nest sites. I also have a pair of wall nesting (!) Sand Martins - more of which soon.

mayo.mick

Saw our Swifts back here in Swinford This morning. Was really chuffed, thinking I was the first to see them. One of our tidy towners heard ans seen them last night here!

Its amazing, the last 2 years they have arrived here, bang on the 4th or 5th of May :cool:

Project we're doing with the local green schools. Hopefully we get new residents this year, we have camera's set up in the nest box's too.

https://swinfordtidytowns.com/project/save-our-swifts-project/

Del.Monte

I tried to persuade the local library here to go for a nestbox scheme a couple of years ago but they didn't seem interested. At least there's plenty of nest sites under the eaves of many houses throughout the town.

mayo.mick

Del.Monte wrote: »

I tried to persuade the local library here to go for a nestbox scheme a couple of years ago but they didn't seem interested. At least there's plenty of nest sites under the eaves of many houses throughout the town.

The kids did a fundraiser to buy the nest box's for their school (with a little help from the tidy towns). That's where i first learned about swifts and their plight. I'm really amazed with them, as is everyone who learns more about them. I really hope some move into our nest box's this year so we can keep an eye on them through the cameras.