Last Swift of the year ... (1 Viewer)

[dwallace]

1 still over the garden here in South Hampshire this morning.

Dave W

 

[Rubia]

I heading south in mid Herts yesterday.

 

[WACCOE]

Four at Spurn today.

 

[SimonLS]

2 at Hanningfield Reservoir, Essex this morning.

Simon

 

[skatebirder]

One heading south over Southampton at 18:30 this evening.

 

[GusHawk]

1 high and south over Edinburgh late afternoon.

 

[keith]

3 over Teesside this morning.

 

[chris butterworth]

1 over Hilbre I., Wirral today.

 

[halftwo]

I think we might have seen the last...

 

[Clive Watson]

3 at Staines reservoir on Sunday (13 Sep)

 

[halftwo]

You could have seen the last ones, Clive. Unless...

 

[FXM]

One at Spurn yesterday.

 

[Nutcracker]

You could have seen the last ones, Clive. Unless...

... they are Pallid — though it's not too late for the occasional Common yet (including eastern pekinensis), so check them very carefully!

 

[Richard Prior]

... they are Pallid — though it's not too late for the occasional Common yet (including eastern pekinensis), so check them very carefully!

Easier said than done N, I had my latest ever past here on Monday 14th, going at a rate of knots, I managed to see scaly markings below :eek!: and whoosh - it was gone, so it's gone down as a young Common ....

 

[Nutcracker]

Easier said than done N, I had my latest ever past here on Monday 14th, going at a rate of knots, I managed to see scaly markings below :eek!: and whoosh - it was gone, so it's gone down as a young Common ....

Aye. But it should really go down as 'swift (sp.)', so as not to give a false bias the perhaps genuinely very rare occurrence of late Apus apus

 

[Richard Prior]

Aye. But it should really go down as 'swift (sp.)', so as not to give a false bias the perhaps genuinely very rare occurrence of late Apus apus

Good point, and if it hadn't been so swift I might have been able to clinch its id. (I'll get 'me' coat, again).

 

[pete wragg]

Three at Spurn yesterday.

 

[Clive Watson]

You could have seen the last ones, Clive. Unless...

Actually, I only saw two of them. Presumably the other one was the Pallid...

Another one reported at Staines reservoir today!

 

[Hotspur]

I had 3 over Dorman's Pool on Thursday 17th at about 4pm.

 

[bittern]

Five over the Plateau des Glières (Haute-Savoie, France) on Saturday 19 September associating with a large group of migrating Barn Swallows and House Martins.

Mike