Swift Awareness Week Dartmouth Swift Walk

[alofanglia]

About 15 people attended the swift walk and talk organised by BeWild and the Devon Swift Project. We started near the house which had been renovated on Mayors Avenue and saw swifts entering the eaves of the house at the opposite end confirming the white streaks on the brick work are an active nest. The renovated house had 6 bricks installed not in the best location at the eaves as hoped but we then observed a cock sparrow entering one followed by a female! Walking around to st saviours church we observed gull chicks with reports of them succumbing to the heat last week while also seeing some external insulation cladding and hearing of where other swifts are often seen and how thy could be marked on swift mapper. At the church the caller could be heard and an explanation of why the Devon Swift Project installs in churches and why they can be so good for swift conservation. Sadly no swift fly byes. On returning to the start of the walk at Mayors avenue about 12 swifts were seen circling the original building and providing a highlight to the evening and emphasising the importance of the building for Dartmouth swifts.
A good evening with people travelling about 10 miles to attend.
All the best
Alistair
Kingsteignton Swifts Part of the Devon swift project
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[Nick Brown]

Thanks for the interesting feedback Alistair.

If there is a county-wide swift project now it might be worth approaching the Devon WT since they used to have a funded swift project to see if there's any synergy?
In Derbyshire, the trust publicises all our SAW events in the county and the planning team liaises with Derbyshire Swift Conservation over planning applications affecting swifts and requirements to install swift bricks etc.
Sadly though, scanning through the Devon trust's website, I can find no reference to swifts at all! 

Nick

Derbyshire/UK SAW Coordinator

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