Swifts

I am an area adviser for Swift Conservation in Yorkshire. If you require advice on roof repairs where Swifts are known to nest or you would like advice on starting  a new colony please phone 01439 788014 or email me on jonathan@pomroy.plus.com . 

 Londons Swifts have great advice on their website, with pages on roof repairs where a colony exists, making nestboxes, even Swift shopping and much more!

There will be much more about Swifts on my blog when they arrive next year- see CATEGORIES section SWIFT DIARY 2011. Here are some images of Swifts at our colony in 2010.

All photographs © Jonathan Pomroy 2010

An adult Swift returns to the nest, its throat stuffed with a bolus of food made of hundreds of tiny insects gathered on the wing

Prospecting Swifts. Non breeding birds practising landing and investigating potential nest sites for next year or perhaps 2012.

Partial albino Swift investigating one of my nest boxes in June.

These are a selection of pages from my Swift sketchbooks.

Swifts feeding low in very cold weather- May

Swift and Royal Air Force Typhoon

Swift flight studies

Swift flying up to nest box

Swift studies