Swift

A regular summer visitor to the reservoir.

02/06/69 - Maximum count of 200 birds

30 max in recent years to 2007

05/05/09 - max 50 birds

08/07/10 - 22 birds

24/05/11 - 15 birds

06/08/12 - 18 birds

2013 - First bird of the year on 25/04. Max 30 on 07/06

2014 - First bird of the year on 31/04. Max 9 on 12/05

2015 - First bird of the year on 01/05. Max 20 on 06/05 when there were also hundreds of hirundines.

2016 - First bird of the year on 28/04. Max 15 on 29/06

2017 - First birds of the year on 04/05 when there were 6. Max 20+ on 22/06

2018 - First birds of the year on 02/05 when there were 4. Max 10 on 09/05

2019 - First birds of the year on 02/05 when there were 9. Max 10 on 11/06

2020 - First single on 30/04. Max 12+ on 21/07. Last single on 01/09

2021 - Only records were a single on 30/04 and 2 on 21/05

2022 - Only 3 records, one on 29/05, 4 on 05/07 and one on 11/08

2023 - First single on 27/04. 6 records, 8+ on 03/07 was the maximum seen