If you live in Swanage you can't have
missed the sight of a large group of Swifts screaming as they career through
the sky high above the roof tops. I spent an hour or so trying to photograph
them as them as they flew over our garden, sometimes so high they were barely
specs, sometimes so close they looked like they would crash in to the
houses. The Swift is an incredible bird
for many reasons: it is our fastest bird on level flight, it is one of our most
ancient dating back at least 65 million years and they almost never land except
on their nests. They are a bird well worth learning more about.
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