NATURE Swifts - BBC - Autumnwatch 2015 

I love swifts so much!!! There are two nests under old roof of my house and I love to watch them. I am truly addicted to the swifts!!! Greetings from the Czech Republic!!!

What amazing birds! I live 200 km south of Moscow (Russia), and every time these fighter jets arrive again, my heart and ears are blissful.

Swifts and swallows definately my favourite summer birds,i love to see them return.

I am also a swift fanatic. Have had 10 drop at my feet in Croatia over the years, kept them in for the night and released the next day by holding them up in hands. Had one in the house when we came back for 2 days away. Two siamese cats had not touched her and she was released later in good condition thanks to a local bird fanatic. They probably are the most amazing birds, but with 6 inch bodies and 16 inch wings, and no legs, only feet, they would struggle to walk. No wonder they sleep when they get in the nest. I need to get hold of some swift bricks when I renovate the house in Croatia as many of the old houses are being over renovated, leading to less nesting sites, though there are still many and always have an aerial display worth watching over my house, especially at dusk.

I love this video. Thank you, from Washington, D.C..

I've one nest under the tiles. The young left for Africa a few days ago.. love swifts. Feels like summer is over not hearing them now

More facts. 3,000 swifts could eat 18 million insects a day! They fly 140,000 kms a year. After their first flight, the babies can spend 2 years in the air until they are mature enough to mate and find a nest. We need them so much, think of all the mosquitoes they can eat! They are quite beautiful up close, the common swift is darker than the pallid swift, their feathers are very glossy. Be careful what you feed a rescued swift, it must be live insects, unless anyone knows better. Worms etc can kill them quickly, thus quite hard to rear.

How do babies know how to fly straight away without practice in just weeks from hatching. It's completely mad. Birds are amazing.

I start looking for these gorgeous little birds from 1st May and I’m always ecstatic when I see my first Swift here in Norwich England. And I’m always sad to see them leave. But for next year, I’m going to install a nest box, maybe two so I can help the numbers of these ‘mini spitfires’ grow.

Very amazing birds, i live in Canada so i can only enjoy these "Swifts" on line

Sadly numbers still in decline have not seen many this year. However there is an abandoned schoolhouse in the hills near here and the House Martins return every year, its heartwarming to see them.

beauty full feeling beauty full heart

Great work.

Amazing

Respect

One of my favourite animals ❤

I love swifts! Does anyone happen to know what the bird is at 0:07 into the video... I’ve never seen anything like it before

Can u tell y my swift bird can't make any sounds it always be like silent

That's awesome Swifty. A fan of the bird then... possibly where your name came from. A determined bird for sure. ATB Mark.

..there's a baby swift in our home from the past week or above. Writing this from Hyderabad, India, Asia. We found the bird on 15th of May, (summer) on the stairs of our apartment. It was a small bird (baby I suppose). We gave it water through a dropper. In fact we didn't even know what bird it was and only after some googling we found it was a swift. The first two days we fed it only water at times. It was little energised. Eben After learning that it eats insects,we could not provide it because we had no insects here. And moreover we weren't sure if it can digest Coz babies are usually Fed by mothers partially digested food. We have been giving it some grains of boiled rice and boiled egg white. I even gave it black ants from our balcony which were about 7mm It always seems hungry, whenever we pass beside it, it comes closer to us and opens mouth. Any suggestions on what to feed it? Can I feed live worms(if so what should be the size of the worm) in how many days will it be able to fly. Anyone who had any idea can reply.

Awesome sweftlet bbc

This guy was really sitting in his lawn chair with binoculars staring at boxes with tiny holes in them?

More boxes going up for next summer's return

I have 4 nesting pairs at the moment love to see them,Looking to buy/make nesting boxes as I am running out of room/they have made nests on my window vents and I’m running out of windows.Also a nightmare to clean Help ,

what is the swift eating?

nice

Nicely made video. Do you think the swifts are paired when thousands go into a chimney like in the video I posted?

Nest box been up for 2 year's first year 2021 Swift's nesting yippie

Will swifts only be in certain parts of the UK?

If you want too see lots of Swifts then head to Spain in the summer time.

These are common swifts, Apus apus, I guess?

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Several thousand a day 🦗 🪰 🦟 bless , god help them we trashing the place food running out .