Swifts are back!

If you've ever wondered how you'd feel if you'd just got home after flying 7,000 miles, here's a wonderful video from Fowlmere in Cambridgeshire!

And in Tisbury, we've done very best to make sure more and more swifts will, over the next few years, have happy homecomings here. 

The team from Hampshire Swifts have, over two weekends so far, installed 20 nest boxes and there are more yet to go up.  Some of these, if not very close to existing active nest sites, also have sound systems playing recordings of a pair of breeding swifts to encourage others to take up residence. So, if you're up shortly after dawn, or around shortly before sunset, and hear the cries of swifts, look up and see if there are nest boxes.

If there aren't, and all you can see is a blank wall, please let us know as there may be a 'natural' nest site often in the tiniest hole.  We'll be organising a survey later in the summer, of nest sites in the village.

Laura Downer, Andrew Graham and I are hugely grateful to so many people in Tisbury and nearby who've responded to this project - and also to the editorial team at Focus for their beautiful cover and feature in the May edition here.