Friday, 27 April 2012

Swifts




The air was full of hints and signs. There was a flicker and a swishing along the river like the breezy snip-snap of barbers’ scissors before they swoop and slice. It was the skimming and twirling of newly arrived swifts.

Patrick Leigh Fermor
A Time of Gifts


New today

Birds

451
common swift
Apus apus

2012 Totals
Mammals: 55
Birds: 451
Reptiles: 12
Amphibians: 6
Fish: 3

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