@bax
Was musing on the swallow/tern/kite family just yesterday. There are secrets yet to be known.
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Swiftwatch™
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Skies scoured: one. Swifts seen: none.
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Fleeting glimpse over King's Hall in Newington from the bus. Not enough to trigger The Joy.
Still, 11th May 2019.
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Great blue skies yesterday but but not a swallow or swift to be seen over south Edinburgh. Is this a facet of a collapse in the population of our insect friends?
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Is this a facet of a collapse in the population of our insect friends?
I had that same concern over the weekend as I only saw the same threesome overhead, despite the more clement weather.
However, walking in this morning via the New Town, I saw what I assumed was those three high overhead. I turned a corner and saw two swifts very high up - they might have been two of the three I'd just seen having cut the corner out of my sight.
Then I turned another corner and was greeted by a squadron of five swooping low over the rooftops of Great King Street.
Things are looking up.
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Up at St Andrews for the weekend and saw myriad swifts flying over the Old Course yesterday while we exercised the ancient right to walk across the course on a Sunday with the rest of the population of the town without getting balls hit at us. I even googled them to ensure I wasn't getting confused with swallows.
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No swifts over the Southside, no swallows. And when was the last time a fulmar nested on Arthur's Seat?
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Can I ask, is this still going on until IWRATS spots a SWIFT like man, PS has spotted 5 they are here.
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Yeah but no but this is a thread for recording the seeing and the feeling of seeing goes on until everybody is filled with joy or snow falls.
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Ok, jus checking, I see the poll is same as Indyref. Note I am voting the other way next time, sorry about earlier
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“I am voting the other way next time, sorry about earlier”
Must be a result of seeing that man on an Irn Bru box at the Mound
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I saw him on an Irn Bru box in Currie too. Then in a bizarre twist he was just walking by the Clutha Vaults when the helicopter crashed into it.
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I see the poll is same as Indyref
55/45 or Yes/Husk-Puppet?
Funny thing happened today but I can't put it here might send you a letter?
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Yes, we could send letters, (as the great Roddy frame said) I have paper, envelopes and a fountain pen.
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https://twitter.com/cllrcmiller/status/1128388741163298816?s=21
“Our summer visitors, the swifts, have started arriving this evening. They were not here this afternoon so I’m pretty excited. This video doesn’t capture them as there are a bunch of blackbirds drowning them out with their gorgeous evening song. But trust me, the swifts are here.”
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They're not here. Sky empty.
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@iwrats, mebbes you wearin dat anti swift cologne?
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A trio of Swifts over Sciennes PS this morning during P3 cycle tuition, then three circling Herons as the children returned to school after a fire alarm.
Cheers
ColinPosted 5 years ago # -
Three above Linlithgow yesterday morning. And I heard some above Leith Links yesterday evening.
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A couple of swifts above the Port Seton Community Centre footy pitches yesterday evening.
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Llareggub where I am.
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"What's that screeching?" I pondered this morning, as I joined the Innocent at Bingham. "Hang on!" I quickly added in my head, "SWIFTS!"
A couple haring abour around ten feet off the groud, then off into the distance.
Yay!
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@Wilmington's Cow knows what this thread is for. BOOM!
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Oh, at last, and in one of my favourite places. Stopped on the viaduct over the River North Esk at Auchendinny and there they were at last, flashing about at Mach 1 making the swallows look like clockwork ornithopters.
Got a wee screech later on.
16th of May 2019.
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the viaduct over the River North Esk at Auchendinny
The internet says there are a couple of "Auchendinny viaduct"s, but I presume you mean this one: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/237439679 ?
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Having spent all week looking out the window at work and wishing I was out cycling instead, I took a day off to do so before the weather changes tomorrow.
So on my way to Penicuik I took a wee detour to visit the Auchendinny viaduct and stopped to admire the location and see if there were any swifts about.
For a few minutes there was nothing but crows, then just as I was about to carry on a rather acrobatic kestrel appeared. I watched that for a minute or two and then noticed three other birds well above the kestrel. Were it not for this forum, I would have called them "blooming big swallows". Success.
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@Frenchy
That is the viaduct. Welcome to Swiftwatch™!
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Getting reports they have reached west end of Currie
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Spotted swifts above almondell country park shop this afternoon, nice
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Nice. Did you feel The Joy?
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