Early Swift departure (1 Viewer)

[YuShan]

Still one here @19:40

 

[YuShan]

Again still one @19:30

 

[aeshna5]

I haven't seen one for nearly 3 weeks but still reports daily from various water bodies around London.

 

[YuShan]

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.

 

[YuShan]

Still one swift @19:10

 

[Xenospiza]

After two swiftless weeks, up to five today!

 

[Euan Buchan]

I think they've left my area not seen then or heard any for awhile. It was great to see them this Spring/Summer.

 

[pianoman]

Three reported by irishbirding.com on the 8th Sept at Cabinteely, co. Dublin

 

[janvanderbrugge]

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

 

[Euan Buchan]

According to Swift Mapper my last sighting of Swifts was on 7th August.

 

[Nutcracker]

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

 

[Nutcracker]

Another single Common Swift today, Swallow Pond, Wallsend, Northumbs.; with mix of ~10 Barn Swallows & ~20 House Martins :t:

 

[pianoman]

Nearly time to rename this thread "Late Swift departure"

 

[Andy Adcock]

Nearly time to rename this thread "Late Swift departure"

Indeed, I actually think that time came a while ago, looooong since gone from here.

 

[Nutcracker]

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:

 

[pianoman]

On reported in IrishBirding on Sept 24th past Helvick Head, Waterford

 

[RyanI]

Still two swifts lingering around east Norfolk yesterday, 4th Oct.

 

[Phil Bishop]

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.

 

[RyanI]

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.

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

 

[Warixenjalka]

I saw one Swift at October 10th in Pori, Finland. It was my latest ever.