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Early Swift departure (1 Viewer)

Still one @18:55, same as previous days. I wonder if it is always the same bird that is just sticking around for a bit.
 
I think they've left my area not seen then or heard any for awhile. It was great to see them this Spring/Summer.
 
This afternoon, 10.09.2020, 13.45h, 2 Swifts circling high for about ten minutes, against a partly heavily-clouded sky (blue and white). Temperature is agreeable, c.19° C. Never seen before after July, I think.
Eastern part of Netherlands, near German border.
Jan van der Brugge
 
Didn't expect to be contributing to this thread again! But this very warm morning, and a late ant mating flight brought in lots of birds over Burradon, southeast Northumbs - this lot enjoying the feast:
3 Herring Gull
70+ Black-headed Gull
1 Sparrowhawk
4 Common Swift
1 swift (sp.) - looked paler/browner than the other 4, but too distant to clinch any decent details
10+ Barn Swallow
40+ House Martin
15+ Jackdaw
20+ Common Starling
 
Yep - many years I don't get any September swifts at all, and the years I do, it's usually been in the first week. Mid Sept is decidedly unusual :t:
 
Around a dozen on 4th October on the Holme-Titchwell stretch of the North Norfolk coast. Wondering if storm Alex might have brought them up from Southern Europe.
 
Phil Bishop said:
Around a dozen on 4th October on the Holme-Titchwell stretch of the North Norfolk coast. Wondering if storm Alex might have brought them up from Southern Europe.
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The two here were with 180 house martins and 20 swallows slowly moving south and with thousands of HM & SL moving south in inland UK at the same time I just presumed they came from the north with those
 
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