Keeping Morpeth Skies Alive
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First 3 Swift’s back to the north Morpeth colony today, a few days earlier than last year. Let’s see if they can beat last year’s record of 23 pairs fledging 49 young @NTBirdClub
Of 16 nest boxes visited in the colony tonight 12 pairs have 28 young, 2 adults are still incubating and 2 are empty.
Including all 27 nest boxes, 21 breeding pairs have a minimum of 45 young which makes this another record year @Z4birding @NTBirdClub
A fascinating day with @RSPBScience who fitted sat.tags to one bird in each of 5 pairs &ringed their 12 well-developed Swiftlets. In the sample group, 9 pairs have a minimum of 18 Swiftlets. 3 birds ringed as adults in 2018 & 2020 were controlled @Z4birding @NTBirdClub @AfSwifts
1/2 RSPB Conservation science are going to use a Morpeth Swift nestbox colony in a 3 year study to compare the foraging behaviour/distance travelled of urban and rural Swifts. They will fit geotags to 5 or 6 birds for a 2 week period in July …
2/2 & then monitor the number of nest provision visits and analyse food types. It’ll be facinating to see the results which i’ll share in due course @NTBirdClub
Να ακυρωθεί η καταστροφική χαλάρωση του νόμου για τα αμπελοπούλλια
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The latest Common Swift I’ve seen in Northumberland & Tyneside - always a please you see one feeding this one at Seaton Sluice.
Following in from my last post....here they are 😊 #Swifts #screamers @NTBirdClub @SaveourSwifts @MoreInMorpeth
Perfect evening; warm and sunny, good red wine, sunset; no need for music as screaming #Swifts fly around their colony (you can just see them off the bottle shoulder). Too soon they’ll be gone #lastdaysofsummer @NTBirdClub @SaveourSwifts @MoreInMorpeth #morpeth #Northumberland
Skies emptying quickly now over my colony here in #Morpeth - down to the last 6 Swifts as the others have departed already 😪 @NTBirdClub @MorSwifts
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16 Swiftlets in 10 nest boxes checked this afternoon; including inaccessible nest boxes the number fledging should be low ‘20’s- not quite as many as last year but next year will be even better 😊 @SaveourSwifts @NEE_Naturalist @NTBirdClub @MoreInMorpeth
Superb display of #Swifts around the colony tonight - must be close to 40 birds with screaming parties frequently around the nest boxes 😊 @SaveourSwifts @NTBirdClub @MoreInMorpeth
Lots of activity around one of my two new Swift nest boxes this year. This makes 9 boxes occupied with at least 7 pairs breeding on my house 😊 @NTBirdClub @SaveourSwifts @MoreInMorpeth
My 4 Swifts from Tuesday have been joined by a few more; tricky to count a some are in the air and some in their nest box waiting for their mate to return. I want the best photo I can get of them this year...here’s the first from Tuesday @MoreInMorpeth @NTBirdClub @SaveourSwifts
4 birds arrived at my colony today, 3 easily overcoming token Sparrow resistance in boxes I can’t block. The 4th has bigger, Starling problems in the box on a neighbours house! #birdwars #reallifesoap @MoreInMorpeth @SaveourSwifts @NTBirdClub
Whoop Whoop! The first 2 Swifts returned to my colony in Morpeth this morning, a couple of days earlier than expected! To celebrate I added 2 more nest boxes to my house 😊😉 #summertime #Countdowncomplete @SaveourSwifts @MoreInMorpeth @NTBirdClub
I saw the first report of a #Swift over #Morpeth this morning; by the end of next week our breeding birds will be back #reasonstobecheerful #summertime @MoreInMorpeth @SaveourSwifts