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Bird thing: I've just seen a swift over my garden. 08:09 - Oct 24 with 2357 viewsGeoffSentence

Which is very late for them, they generally start to fly off to warmer climes in July.

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Bird thing: I've just seen a swift over my garden. on 08:20 - Oct 24 with 2321 viewsBanksterDebtSlave

Blimey....are you sure? I saw swallows over Thorpeness in November last year.

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Bird thing: I've just seen a swift over my garden. on 09:40 - Oct 24 with 2283 viewsGeoffSentence

Bird thing: I've just seen a swift over my garden. on 08:20 - Oct 24 by BanksterDebtSlave

Blimey....are you sure? I saw swallows over Thorpeness in November last year.


Absolutely no doubt about it, it was low over my garden and flying into the wind so wasnt going anywhere too fast, got a good look at it. Their body shape is very distinctive.

Maybe the southerlies of the last few days have blown one or two stragglers back to these shores.

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Bird thing: I've just seen a swift over my garden. on 21:56 - Oct 28 with 2183 viewsBanksterDebtSlave

Bird thing: I've just seen a swift over my garden. on 09:40 - Oct 24 by GeoffSentence

Absolutely no doubt about it, it was low over my garden and flying into the wind so wasnt going anywhere too fast, got a good look at it. Their body shape is very distinctive.

Maybe the southerlies of the last few days have blown one or two stragglers back to these shores.


Quite incredible Geoff. I wonder if it is a hand reared one.

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Bird thing: I've just seen a swift over my garden. on 22:16 - Oct 28 with 2149 viewsSwansea_Blue

17 degrees here today and feeling much warmer in the sun, 4 days before November. It's going to be 30 across large parts of France tomorrow. It's all gone a bit pear shaped. Ok we're a week off, but as it is now you could have bonfire night in shorts and a t-shirt.

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Bird thing: I've just seen a swift over my garden. on 06:50 - Oct 29 with 2072 viewsElephantintheRoom

Maybe it’s just arrived? I’ve got loads of similarly confused trees that shed their leaves in summer and have grown new leaves and blossom on autumn. Any swift passing through France might be thinking Spring is on the way.

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Bird thing: I've just seen a swift over my garden. on 08:44 - Oct 29 with 2022 viewsmojo

It could be a pallid swift Geoff. There have been a few in the country the past few days.
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Bird thing: I've just seen a swift over my garden. on 09:16 - Oct 29 with 1989 viewsMeadowlark

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Bird thing: I've just seen a swift over my garden. on 17:50 - Oct 31 with 1856 viewsChondzoresk

I think you saw a rarity. According to Bird Guides there has recently been an invasion of Pallid Swifts, not normally found in the UK.


https://www.birdguides.com/news/unprecedented-pallid-swift-influx-reaches-britai
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Bird thing: I've just seen a swift over my garden. on 17:57 - Oct 31 with 1836 viewsGeoffSentence

Bird thing: I've just seen a swift over my garden. on 17:50 - Oct 31 by Chondzoresk

I think you saw a rarity. According to Bird Guides there has recently been an invasion of Pallid Swifts, not normally found in the UK.


https://www.birdguides.com/news/unprecedented-pallid-swift-influx-reaches-britai


Interesting, although I got a decent look at it, it was not enough to spot anything that might have verified it as any particular type of swift.

I wonder why it is pallid swifts coming to out shores on the back of warm weather rather than common ones.

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Bird thing: I've just seen a swift over my garden. on 18:02 - Oct 31 with 1831 viewsChondzoresk

Bird thing: I've just seen a swift over my garden. on 17:57 - Oct 31 by GeoffSentence

Interesting, although I got a decent look at it, it was not enough to spot anything that might have verified it as any particular type of swift.

I wonder why it is pallid swifts coming to out shores on the back of warm weather rather than common ones.


Probably due to climate change. No other reason why I guess.
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Bird thing: I've just seen a swift over my garden. on 21:25 - Oct 31 with 1787 viewsEireannach_gorm

Bird thing: I've just seen a swift over my garden. on 18:02 - Oct 31 by Chondzoresk

Probably due to climate change. No other reason why I guess.


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https://www.bto.org/about-bto/press-releases/swallows-have-started-spending-wint

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/climate-change-hints-as-swifts-appear-in-no-hurr
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Bird thing: I've just seen a swift over my garden. on 07:55 - Nov 2 with 1673 viewsBanksterDebtSlave

https://www.birdguides.com/news/unprecedented-pallid-swift-influx-reaches-britai

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Bird thing: I've just seen a swift over my garden. on 08:16 - Nov 2 with 1656 viewsGeoffSentence

Bird thing: I've just seen a swift over my garden. on 07:55 - Nov 2 by BanksterDebtSlave

https://www.birdguides.com/news/unprecedented-pallid-swift-influx-reaches-britai


There you go, I wasn't going bonkers. Or if I was, lots of other people are going similarly daft, possibly an effect of the warm autumn weather.

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Bird thing: I've just seen a swift over my garden. on 16:12 - Nov 11 with 1316 viewsNthQldITFC

Bird thing: I've just seen a swift over my garden. on 08:20 - Oct 24 by BanksterDebtSlave

Blimey....are you sure? I saw swallows over Thorpeness in November last year.


I saw a young first year swallow yesterday on t'Shotley Peninsula.

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