Will You Please Record Your Swift Sightings Here?

[ladybirder]

This will help the RSPCA to help the Swifts and they need all the help they can get. Thank you.

https://www.rspb.org.uk/our-work/conservation/conservation-and-sustainability/safeguarding-species/swiftmapper/?utm_source=notes_on_nature_bitesize_9May&utm_medium=email&utm_content=3&utm_campaign=covid-19

[ladybirder]

Come on, someone help the Swifts please.

[Robinia]

I'll have a look at that. I look forward to hearing the swifts every year because they always arrive around my birthday...it's just gone, 6th May. This year they were early, thanks no doubt to the weather.

[Canary42]

Sorry, no sites here (and lockdown prevents forays out to seek any)

[ladybirder]

Thank you Robinia, good luck with it.
Canary me neither. Perhaps if I could get up onto the South Downs I might but that's not possible sadly.

[ynnafymmi]

Up here in Aberdeen we used to have thousands of swifts.They used to build their nests in the eaves of our house........havent seen a swift in Aberdeen for the past thirty years now....

[ladybirder]

That is so sad. I've just looked on the map and there are 516 sightings for the Aberdeen area, so hope is not lost.
https://www.swiftmapper.org.uk

[Ringlet]

Loads of swifts around the north coast of Northern Ireland.

[brainiac]

Don't know if you saw this ladybirder:
https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Animals-and-Nature/Question1705859.html

[ladybirder]

I did brainiac thank you. My hope was that some of the posters on that thread would put their sightings on this Swift map:-)
PS I was very jealous when I saw that thread.