Cypseloidine swifts build nests with moss and lichen on ledges near or behind waterfalls and will sometimes re-use nests. |
In July evening flights of swifts wheeling high over our garden are a regular feature. |
Dozens of swifts wheel in and out through a 2-foot square hole high in the wall. |
Every evening, with patience, you will glimpse chimney swifts dropping into and launching out of one of our chimneys. |
The hobby is one of the very few birds of prey capable of outflying swifts, perhaps at a speed approaching 100 mph. |
However I did log a woodchat shrike, numerous barn and red-rumped swallows, a veritable swarm of common swifts, and a common buzzard. |