http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Swallows-Martins-Swifts-Worldwide/ Swallows, Martins & Swifts Worldwide Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:20:10 GMT Common Swift http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Swallows-Martins-Swifts-Worldwide/message/7402 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Swallows-Martins-Swifts-Worldwide/message/7402 Hi CS friends, Oscar Gordo wrote me from Spain Mon, 08 Feb 2010 : "This weekend I was in Extremadura (southwestern Spain) and I was fascinated by the advanced Sun, 07 Feb 2010 12:06:37 GMT Mark Smyth http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Swallows-Martins-Swifts-Worldwide/message/7401 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Swallows-Martins-Swifts-Worldwide/message/7401 Who from the UK is travelling to Berlin? After many hours on the internet, phone calls to Germany and having emails translated the three of us have finally Sun, 07 Feb 2010 11:52:21 GMT Mark Smyth http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Swallows-Martins-Swifts-Worldwide/message/7400 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Swallows-Martins-Swifts-Worldwide/message/7400 An ad on TV for the Northern Ireland Environment Agency featured tawny owls Strix aluco calling. The mistake was only noticed when the ad went on TV. Those who Sun, 07 Feb 2010 11:26:32 GMT Mark Smyth http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Swallows-Martins-Swifts-Worldwide/message/7399 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Swallows-Martins-Swifts-Worldwide/message/7399 Brian I would say it's down to how you registered your name for the group. Your emails sent to me come in as Bbrian59 rather than your name. I'll come over Sun, 07 Feb 2010 11:21:04 GMT oyt63xgpy http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Swallows-Martins-Swifts-Worldwide/message/7398 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Swallows-Martins-Swifts-Worldwide/message/7398 Could any member please explain to me in a few simple sentences how to add my name to my posts EG oyt63xgpy ,Brian Cahalane i am hopeless with computers . Many Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:07:19 GMT Dr Norman Waddington http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Swallows-Martins-Swifts-Worldwide/message/7397 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Swallows-Martins-Swifts-Worldwide/message/7397 Jonathan, I found your post most interesting. I am writing to you from Featherstone in West Yorkshire. Can you send me a spec for your nest boxes. Norman Sun, 07 Feb 2010 08:34:50 GMT Jonathan Pomroy http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Swallows-Martins-Swifts-Worldwide/message/7396 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Swallows-Martins-Swifts-Worldwide/message/7396 I couldn't agree more about the value of artificial(and real) martin nests about roost sites. We have often had great and blue tits roost(singly) in them right Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:44:07 GMT oyt63xgpy http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Swallows-Martins-Swifts-Worldwide/message/7395 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Swallows-Martins-Swifts-Worldwide/message/7395 At my house i have eight artificial house martin nests which are proving very useful as roosting sites for wren, blue tit, and great tit.This evening i Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:37:41 GMT Edward Mayer http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Swallows-Martins-Swifts-Worldwide/message/7394 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Swallows-Martins-Swifts-Worldwide/message/7394 The sloppiness of bird identification by experts in other fields never fails to amaze me. The National Gallery in London has a painting of Saint Francis and as Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:32:32 GMT Edward Mayer http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Swallows-Martins-Swifts-Worldwide/message/7393 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Swallows-Martins-Swifts-Worldwide/message/7393 Hi Giorgio, Is that very unusual? It seems so! All the best, Edward Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:47:36 GMT Andy Paterson http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Swallows-Martins-Swifts-Worldwide/message/7392 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Swallows-Martins-Swifts-Worldwide/message/7392 Mark: It beats me how badly the production people manage to do things, sheer laziness I suspect. Here in Spain, while the dubbing of films is usually of a very Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:38:08 GMT Mark Smyth http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Swallows-Martins-Swifts-Worldwide/message/7391 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Swallows-Martins-Swifts-Worldwide/message/7391 On the BBc recently they showed a robin singing but the audio was a chaffnch singing Mark -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:39:43 GMT hanswillem65 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Swallows-Martins-Swifts-Worldwide/message/7390 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Swallows-Martins-Swifts-Worldwide/message/7390 I am thrilled about the good news the Swifts coming north. Here in Haarlem (Netherlands) all beds are spread for them.lol Greets Hans www.bvgz.nl Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:42:07 GMT Giorgio Paesani http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Swallows-Martins-Swifts-Worldwide/message/7389 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Swallows-Martins-Swifts-Worldwide/message/7389 First two swifts in Italy. The first one (surely a Common swift Apus apus) was found dead in Palermo (Sicilia), the second one (Apus sp.) was seen in Catania Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:41:39 GMT Edward Mayer http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Swallows-Martins-Swifts-Worldwide/message/7388 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Swallows-Martins-Swifts-Worldwide/message/7388 Dear Jochem, Not surprising at all! I have seen a BBC film of a Jane Austen novel, and also a French film about the Second World War, both set in the middle of