NATURE Swifts - BBC - Autumnwatch 2015

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This is an excerpt taken from 'Autumnwatch', which was first shown on BBC2 at 8pm 3 Nov 2015
This section of the programme featured some footage taken by viewer Mark Glanville, who had fitted cameras to film the swifts in the nest boxes he had erected
This excerpt also mentions that the BTO reckon swift numbers have fallen 42 per cent in the last 20 years - largely felt to be due to loss of nesting sites and the way new buildings are constructed. I have listed a few sites which show how to create nest boxes should you wish to help, and of course they can also be bought ready made too
Further informayion on swifts:
www.swift-conservation.org/
www.rspb.org.uk/discoverandenj...
www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/south/...
.... on swift nest boxes:
www.swift-conservation.org/Sma...
www.swift-conservation.org/Nes...
www.bristolswifts.co.uk/swift-...
actionforswifts.blogspot.co.uk...
www.commonswift.org/Installing...
www.magikbirds.com/image.asp?t...
- Tony

Пікірлер: 59

@crazy71rus 3 жыл бұрын

What amazing birds! I live 200 km south of Moscow (Russia), and every time these fighter jets arrive again, my heart and ears are blissful.

@sasak0t 2 жыл бұрын

даа I'm from Ukraine, and I'd to watch these birds very often! They are really like a jet planes.

@editiongauglitz2028 Жыл бұрын

The only good kind of fighter jets! So amazing!

@olgabauerova3303 2 жыл бұрын

I love swifts so much!!! There are two nests under old roof of my house and I love to watch them. I am truly addicted to the swifts!!! Greetings from the Czech Republic!!!

@colinjones7635 7 жыл бұрын

Swifts and swallows definately my favourite summer birds,i love to see them return.

@mal1gosia1 5 жыл бұрын

Colin Jones - I've missed them for whole my life. Every year it's a great joy for me to see them back (in Poland).

@deliverybryan1138 5 жыл бұрын

Colin Jones Hummingbirds are also awesome and fun to watch !!

@angelatewson8202 4 жыл бұрын

@@deliverybryan1138 Hummingbirds are apparently a close relative of swifts!

@picocluster 3 жыл бұрын

They are great to watch return every year. I have a video from 2010. I plan to get another in a few days. 10 years later I wonder if things will be different

@picocluster 3 жыл бұрын

Swifts are cool. The large groups making patterns in the sky.

@angelatewson8202 4 жыл бұрын

I am also a swift fanatic. Have had 10 drop at my feet in Croatia over the years, kept them in for the night and released the next day by holding them up in hands. Had one in the house when we came back for 2 days away. Two siamese cats had not touched her and she was released later in good condition thanks to a local bird fanatic. They probably are the most amazing birds, but with 6 inch bodies and 16 inch wings, and no legs, only feet, they would struggle to walk. No wonder they sleep when they get in the nest. I need to get hold of some swift bricks when I renovate the house in Croatia as many of the old houses are being over renovated, leading to less nesting sites, though there are still many and always have an aerial display worth watching over my house, especially at dusk.

@picocluster 3 жыл бұрын

I picked one off the ground as well. I turned it in to the bird shelter. They said it just needed a high place to get back in the air.

@plimptonsedgwick165 5 жыл бұрын

I love this video. Thank you, from Washington, D.C..

@picocluster 3 жыл бұрын

I second that. Enjoyed this video as well.

@TrancetasticWilza 2 жыл бұрын

I've one nest under the tiles. The young left for Africa a few days ago.. love swifts. Feels like summer is over not hearing them now

@thecanoehead 6 жыл бұрын

Very amazing birds, i live in Canada so i can only enjoy these "Swifts" on line

@TraceyMush 6 жыл бұрын

l'm in Hamilton in Southern Ontario and there are many swifts in my neighbourhood. My balcony has been mostly free of mosquitoes since the swifts arrived about 8-10 years ago.

@angelatewson8202 4 жыл бұрын

More facts. 3,000 swifts could eat 18 million insects a day! They fly 140,000 kms a year. After their first flight, the babies can spend 2 years in the air until they are mature enough to mate and find a nest. We need them so much, think of all the mosquitoes they can eat! They are quite beautiful up close, the common swift is darker than the pallid swift, their feathers are very glossy. Be careful what you feed a rescued swift, it must be live insects, unless anyone knows better. Worms etc can kill them quickly, thus quite hard to rear.

@picocluster 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing this information. We have lots of swifts here in Portland Oregon.

@borleyboo5613 Жыл бұрын

I start looking for these gorgeous little birds from 1st May and I’m always ecstatic when I see my first Swift here in Norwich England. And I’m always sad to see them leave. But for next year, I’m going to install a nest box, maybe two so I can help the numbers of these ‘mini spitfires’ grow.

@fakharjabbar7880 2 жыл бұрын

Great work.

@AldGregg 4 жыл бұрын

How do babies know how to fly straight away without practice in just weeks from hatching. It's completely mad. Birds are amazing.

@jahankarim351 8 ай бұрын

Do they not see the birds above them spreading and closing their wings? it is only their Lord of Mercy who holds them up: He watches over everything.(Surah Mulk Quran 67:19 )

@AldGregg 8 ай бұрын

@@jahankarim351 Indeed they do but it's the speed of the learning that I find so amazing with birds. From an egg being laid, it hatches and takes flight in just over a month

@oceanfloor258 Жыл бұрын

Sadly numbers still in decline have not seen many this year. However there is an abandoned schoolhouse in the hills near here and the House Martins return every year, its heartwarming to see them.

@danishmohan3654 2 жыл бұрын

beauty full feeling beauty full heart

@Marble_Bliss 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing

@WyeExplorer 8 жыл бұрын

That's awesome Swifty. A fan of the bird then... possibly where your name came from. A determined bird for sure. ATB Mark.

@Ponfizius Жыл бұрын

One of my favourite animals ❤

@v.kawlni5552 10 ай бұрын

Respect

@jennavdw1 2 жыл бұрын

I love swifts! Does anyone happen to know what the bird is at 0:07 into the video... I’ve never seen anything like it before

@swiftymorgan5064 2 жыл бұрын

Not much to go on! I think it's s Bearded Tit

@picocluster 3 жыл бұрын

Nicely made video. Do you think the swifts are paired when thousands go into a chimney like in the video I posted?

@swiftymorgan5064 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! According to Wiki: 'Swifts form pairs that may couple for years, and often return to the same nesting site and partner year after year'

@Tanishka_508 6 жыл бұрын

nice

@OtygWalet 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome sweftlet bbc

@soniaross2438 2 жыл бұрын

Can u tell y my swift bird can't make any sounds it always be like silent

@ryanmacfarlane9338 4 жыл бұрын

I have 4 nesting pairs at the moment love to see them,Looking to buy/make nesting boxes as I am running out of room/they have made nests on my window vents and I’m running out of windows.Also a nightmare to clean Help ,

@picocluster 3 жыл бұрын

You are a good person. Hope more people follow your lead and provide for the swifts.

@paulreeve9642 2 жыл бұрын

I would like to put a box up. I have a blue tit box on rear of the house which faces north west. The front of the house faces south east. Don't know if the front would be ok under the guttering as it would be in shade. Also a clear flight path into a box fitted there?

@thejoyofloving Жыл бұрын

..there's a baby swift in our home from the past week or above. Writing this from Hyderabad, India, Asia. We found the bird on 15th of May, (summer) on the stairs of our apartment. It was a small bird (baby I suppose). We gave it water through a dropper. In fact we didn't even know what bird it was and only after some googling we found it was a swift. The first two days we fed it only water at times. It was little energised. Eben After learning that it eats insects,we could not provide it because we had no insects here. And moreover we weren't sure if it can digest Coz babies are usually Fed by mothers partially digested food. We have been giving it some grains of boiled rice and boiled egg white. I even gave it black ants from our balcony which were about 7mm It always seems hungry, whenever we pass beside it, it comes closer to us and opens mouth. Any suggestions on what to feed it? Can I feed live worms(if so what should be the size of the worm) in how many days will it be able to fly. Anyone who had any idea can reply.

@Jordy5121_ 5 жыл бұрын

Will swifts only be in certain parts of the UK?

@swiftymorgan5064 5 жыл бұрын

A website suggests ''Common summer visitor everywhere except far N and W Scotland'' and ''Breeds almost exclusively in buildings in towns and villages, but travels large distances to feed and can then be found almost anywhere'' (www.birdsofbritain.co.uk/bird-guide/swift.asp) I have noticed they seem to be seen around the country in clumps, being somewhat social creatures. I think it's really to do with wherever they can find nesting - eaves under houses being ideal for them

@belisalourens5711 6 жыл бұрын

what is the swift eating?

@swiftymorgan5064 6 жыл бұрын

At around 1.40? As far I know it would have to something airborne such as flies etc, seeing as they spend almost all their time on the wing - even sleeping there so they say

@brianattenborough7588 2 жыл бұрын

More boxes going up for next summer's return

@brianattenborough7588 2 жыл бұрын

Nest box been up for 2 year's first year 2021 Swift's nesting yippie

@FlipNasty1 3 жыл бұрын

This guy was really sitting in his lawn chair with binoculars staring at boxes with tiny holes in them?

@samsubonebrkh 3 жыл бұрын

@michaelcastro6731 6 жыл бұрын

If you want too see lots of Swifts then head to Spain in the summer time.

@picocluster 3 жыл бұрын

Or Portland Oregon next week. Early September and there will be thousands.

@michaelcastro6731 3 жыл бұрын

@@picocluster I live in Portland for 6 yrs and don't ever recall seeing any swifts. I think I was smoking to much good weed.

@thomasfisher-york4230 3 жыл бұрын

These are common swifts, Apus apus, I guess?

@swiftymorgan5064 3 жыл бұрын

Yes Thomas, they are Making a note of it, I see they always arrive in Shropshire (England ) around 4/5/6 May every year, and leave early August or thereabouts

@picocluster 3 жыл бұрын

Are these different than vaux swifts.

@swiftymorgan5064 3 жыл бұрын

@@picocluster I'm sure they are despite their similarities. As far as I'm aware the Vaux Swifts are common to N America and as far south as the northern part of S America, whereas the Swifts (or Common Swifts) migrate from the northern part of Africa into Europe for the Summer