A good number of swifts along with some martins, swallows, and other small birds (and a few seagulls) swooping over the trees to the north-east of Pollock Halls last night.
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Posted 4 years ago #
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Spotted a solitary swift hawking for insects over Fairmilehead yesterday afternoon. First time this year I've seen one from the house.
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A dozen or so swifts hawking for insects over Yellowcraig beach this afternoon :)
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Can hardly move for passing swifts in Stockbridge this year. Assume it's cliffy enough to the south to make them at home.
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Yes, I think they use WhatsApp to decide on the colony placement and the towering heights of Randolph Crescent are it.
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Walking along the Burdiehouse Burn this morning I heard out of the corner of my ear what I thought was a buzzard. Looked up to see a swift instead.
Have no idea what actually made the noise, but don't think it was the swift.
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Could be a starling. They are as cheeky as they are talented.
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Heard what I could have sworn were swifts screaming above the streets of Duns last weekend - but it was the local starlings which have learned to imitate them.
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Some swallows have yet to leave well there was one on the wire at Humbie hub last saturday
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Dreamed I saw a swift last night. Was woken by the sound of a skein of geese. We are in the liminal times.
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There is a new Swift Local Group if you want to meet like minded souls. They will train you in swift related tasks like counting, nest boxes
murderPosted 3 years ago # -
"An awareness of inclusivity and unconscious bias"
What if your biases are very, very conscious?
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A keenness for Swifts
and
a swiftness for Keens
Then at the end to demonstrate their inclusivity and awareness of unconscious bias they have added
Inclusivity and unconscious bias
Or if you have conscious bias a willingness to go on the RSPB course
As you see it’s not all about Swifts is it
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Posted 3 years ago #
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“
Edinburgh aims to become sanctuary for swifts as numbers decline
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-56009892
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I am very much enjoying thinking about a young @urchaidh gagging on rotting horse at the same time as thinking about swifts in South Africa noting the nights drawing in and mulling over a trip to Marchmont.
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This Swift box popped up in my middle class facebook feed too
Iwrats will make his own
I will buy one from minsmere
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No, I believe in capacity-building rather than service provision. I shall hold workshops at which swifts will be upskilled in masonry and carpentry.
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Are they going to be quarantined this year?
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Stopped at the border, forced to vomit up any foreign flies.
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one shouldn't forget the pivotal role that swifts played in the development of the darkside techno hardcore continuum circa 92-93
indeed some say they are waiting in the wings to usher in a fresh wave of original bad boy junglist rhythms this coming summer
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Came back from very enjoyable jaunt to Craiglockart there bit of heavy graupel falling.
Tons of motors there and back
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Not gonna lie, I was hoping this was going to be a Taylor Swift thread.
I think we need one, @Stickman
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@harts, good, but not as good as your poetry or your general excellence in the bike fettling and selling arena.
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Haha. Very kind, gembo. I think T Swizzle trumps me in pre-eminence in her field...
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I heard a good one at the weekend which only works if you grew up in the west of Scotland
What has 48 legs and no teeth?
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gembo-san i have sat with your maybole koan for a night and a day, but am no nearer to solving it
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@gembo - is that the one about the recently departed Steak & Kidney?
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@stickman yes
@bax San the answer is It is the front row of a Sydney Devine concert
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The thread is about swifts, children. (No teeth and no feet)
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