Phil · @Phil
202 followers · 1482 posts · Server folksocial.org

33rd of my

Both uplifting and depressing, as you’d expect. Well written and packed with interest and information. Highly recommended if you like this sort of thing.

#booksof2023 #swifts #birding #biodiversity #nature #book #books #bookstodon #reading #booksreadin2023

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Joe Vilas · @jhv
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IngloriousBustards · @ingloriousBustards
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rain y’day briefly slowing the passage of !

Then a river of Birds! Booted & Short-toed Eagles & Egyptian Vultures danced through The as streams of European Honey Buzzards moved out joined by Common, Pallid & Alpine !!

#glorious #migratory #birds #straits #swifts #flywaybirding

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Swift · @swift
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Poppy Leeder🌱🕯 · @poppyleeder
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, and on this morning's dog walk. Great to see all three together when the swifts came down much lower than usual

#swifts #swallows #HouseMartins

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Catherine Rowan Jones · @ivyfox
178 followers · 1055 posts · Server birdon.social


The best thing about listening to when I'm unable to leave my home is the joyous calls of swifts.
Bringing in the bins just now, I was serenaded by a screaming party, hurtling headlong through the gaps between terraced houses.
They will soon be leaving the Northern hemisphere and, as every year, my will be duller for their departure.

#nature #swifts #birdsong #urban #soundscape

Last updated 1 year ago

A superb few days of on our weekender tour !

5 species of - White-rumped, Little, Alpine, Pallid and Common Swifts all giving us magical encounters alongside Northern Bald Ibis, Rufous-tailed Scrub Robins, Isabelline Warbler, migratory , Black Kites and White Storks crossing The and so much more !

Amazing 😊

ingloriousbustards.com/swift-w

#birding #swift #glorious #swifts #shorebirds #straits #flywaybirding

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Andrasta · @Judeet98
805 followers · 2188 posts · Server mstdn.social

Our squadron of hasn't gone yet! I counted at least 15 swooping and whistling overhead this morning whilst picking raspberries. It's chilly this morning so I think are going to be slow to ripen, and , many of which are now behind the aggressive 6' neighbour's fence sadly. I will shortly be making more jam. I wonder too whether I'll be wearing the rest of my clothes and sandals this year.

#Summer #pumpkins #tomatoes #swifts

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Jake Rayson · @natureworks
1366 followers · 5302 posts · Server mas.to

Waiting for the Swifts to fly in front of the clouds again. They didn't.

#swifts #birds

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Andrew Shields · @AndrewShields
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JuneSim63 💚 · @junesim63
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It takes just under a minute to make a single swift brick that could house generations of migratory birds. So why isn’t it compulsory to install them in the UK?

theguardian.com/environment/20

#migratorybirds #biodiversity #Birds #swifts

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Bill Horsman · @billhorsman
38 followers · 225 posts · Server mastodon.scot

A light was on in the Basilica di San Vittore al Corpo and we could hear a choir practicing inside. Mixed in with screaming swifts, mopeds firing down cobbled streets and the occasional police or ambulance siren. Sant’Ambrogio, Milan.

#basilica #choir #swifts #milan

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Stephen · @mister_goldfish
168 followers · 1156 posts · Server mastodon.green

In Norfolk, nest boxes have been installed in a church to help boost the numbers of Swifts.

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norf

#goodnews #norfolk #swifts #nesting #birds #conservation

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Petrichor · @sinabhfuil
800 followers · 2668 posts · Server mastodon.ie

I thought the little forked-tailed birds whizzing around in Eamonn Ceannt Park were swallows, but looking at the RSPB comparison, maybe they were house martins?

#eamonnceanntpark #housemartins #swallows #swifts

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R S Thomas (poet) · @RSThomasPoet
187 followers · 287 posts · Server toot.wales

One of the key stand out highlights for our guests and friends yesterday was being literally enveloped in swirling masses of low flying Little Swift !

Here’s one just leaving the nesting ! Little flying perfection! 😊

#colony #moulting #flywaybirding #ingloriousbustards #swifts

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Mo Schoenfeld (she/her) · @MoSchoenfeld
342 followers · 1543 posts · Server zirk.us

Had a lovely surprise (once I got past my initial fear of birds flying at me) when I opened the door to our our buildings just now & there were 4 just come of age who must have been in a nest in the barn. They all flew out, eventually, and are now flying to and fro all over our garden. Still trying to catch them in flight but that is proving difficult, of course. Beauties 💛

#swifts #nature #birdsofmastodon

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Mo Schoenfeld (she/her) · @MoSchoenfeld
342 followers · 1543 posts · Server zirk.us

Had a lovely surprise (once I got past my initial fear of birds flying at me) when I opened the door to our our buildings just now & there were 4 just come of age who must have been in a nest in the barn. They all flew out, eventually, and are now flying to and fro all over our garden. Still trying to catch them in flight but that is proving difficult, of course. Beauties 💛

#swifts #nature

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AutisticMumTo3 She/her · @AutisticMumTo3
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MartinTaudio · @MartinTaudio
63 followers · 67 posts · Server mastodon.scot

Salisbury Crags in Edinburgh is amazing of you want to observe swifts, they are literally swooping around your head! Getting a usable photo of them is a bit more of a challenge though…

#canon90d #birdwatching #birdphotography #birdsofmastodon #photography #naturecommunity #wildlife #birds #naturephotography #nature #swifts

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