Dominic Coath

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@TonyJuniper @devilscustard @DaveGoulson Slow in North Herts, it's the bumbles and butterflies that are so noticeably absent. Lots of swift activity though so small airborne insects doing better? Hotter weather last week seems to have helped.Take heart and keep your gardens wild. Insects bounce back fast.

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@dogwooddays_nic I watch them every evening. I stand self consciously on the pavement by the drive. Do I seem odd? Should I accost passers by, explain excitedly about the swifts in my eaves and how long I waited for them or will that just bemuse them further?

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@dogwooddays_nic Fantastic, not something to ever get bored of!

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@dogwooddays_nic Counterintuitively given the dearth of insects, swifts are having an excitable year.

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@benjyhere @nicolawriting @LevParikian @Kate_Bradbury @swiftsweek @SaveourSwifts 🎉🎉🎉

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@MarkAvery Is the money the problem or is the fact that is such an important outreach tool?

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@dogwooddays_nic @Summersdale @Taffyagent @Debbie_Travel Really excited for you Nic and can't wait to read it!

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@JonathanMPomroy Thanks for you blog. It has really helped me understand our colony. I have at least one swift under the eaves since 6th June. It occasionally calls out and makes little chatty "zipping" noises at other times. A lone male perhaps but it sounds like swifts will lay this late?

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@Kate_Bradbury Would a quick video of swifts being idiots help?

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@grahamknight59 @dogwooddays_nic @Kate_Bradbury Sure. How and what details do you need? I will put it on swift mapper as well.

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There's a swift under our eaves. I can hear it screaming at the others as they zoom past and I think I might burst. @dogwooddays_nic @Kate_Bradbury

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@dogwooddays_nic @Kate_Bradbury Thanks Nic. I'm not sure if it's too late for a successful nest. Mathematically it's possible. It's progress either way though! 😊

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@Kate_Bradbury @dogwooddays_nic Thank you! I was reading about swifts in your book at the time so I like think you helped channel them!

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@Kate_Bradbury Yay! So good to see them back. This is the year they repay my love and devotion by nesting in my nest box right?

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@MilesKing10 Can they do slopes?

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After all you said you would https://t.co/H6ayQXCqXU @ChrisGPackham @Kate_Bradbury

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Got back from a lovely long weekend to find that "lineside vegetation management" actually means ground zero. What I would like to know from @networkrail is (a thread):

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I would like some reassurance that you will be investing in (albeit tree free) biodiversity in this area of line side in the future and mitigating for loss of bird breeding habitat bat flight lines etc