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Swifts need our help

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  • #392
    Mech1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,163 ✭✭✭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!


  • #393
    swifts need our help!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 944 ✭✭✭swifts need our help!


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


  • #394
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    I'd put money on them being Swallows.


  • #395
    mayo.mick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,516 ✭✭✭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

    Swinford Weather



  • #396
    DellyBelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,689 ✭✭✭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


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  • #397
    Del.Monte
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭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.

    ****



  • #398
    mayo.mick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,516 ✭✭✭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/

    Swinford Weather



  • #399
    Del.Monte
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭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.

    ****



  • #400
    mayo.mick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,516 ✭✭✭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.

    Swinford Weather



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