Thursday, June 26, 2008

swifts

just had about 20 swifts about 2m from the ground
this could be the signs of bad wether that nick carter promissed
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2 comments:

Dave Barker said...

Hi Dishfish
Good that you got some Swifts. There was a very large movement of Swifts down the east coast and most likely elsewhere on Wednesday 25th June with c11000 being counted going south at Spurn. This I believe would have been in response to bad weather down the western side of the country.... this has been noted many times before. Your Swifts if they were on the move could have been part of the return movement (as the birds came back north) if in this case there was one.

Suggest the deep (for the time of year) double centred low 993 / 994mb off the western coast off Ireland moving slowly NE and with influence extending to NE England might have played a part in the in this big Spurn Swift movement during the day of the 25th.

A few weeks ago if you are interested I posted a brief write up as to why Swifts react to bad weather as they do and this can be found on:

http://vismig.blogspot.com/2008/06/swifts-and-weather-movements.html

Would be very interested to hear of any further Swift movements noted this Summer as believe it or not they are my favourite birds!!

Dave Barker

7:12 pm
Daniel Branch said...

thanks dave

4:31 pm

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