Leicester

August 10, 2001

Bright blue early morning. pleasant temperature. The next day the weather changed and it became cloudy, windy and raining over the weekend.

  1. Common Swift Apus apus
    2. 2 specimen. the last of the summer, it seems. A week before up to 20 could be seen in the sky south of Victoria park.

Nomenclature follows Voous’s List of Recent Holarctic Bird Species (BOU 1977, revised edition). English names are as in BOU Checklist of Birds of Britain and Ireland (6th Edition, 1992)