Tisbury swifts survey

Trying to get a handle on the current population of Tisbury's swifts is pretty tricky - accurately counting screaming parties going at anything up to 70mph is a challenge.  Almost all of our team of around a dozen came to The Boot for a briefing by Andrew Graham, our wildlife recording expert, before setting off for their allocated area out of the ten mapped out by Andrew.

It was a perfect evening, but the swifts were a bit partial to some areas and markedly less so to others.  But here's a video of the action on my own house - which I guess is where this whole project started!  The video's best viewed if you click bottom right to expand to full screen.​

So from now on until 7 August, if you see people snooping around your area around sunset (or maybe dawn as there are some larks amongst us), that's what we're up to.

​Go to Projects for a full account of the evening.