Hi all
I don’t normally post my swift sightings (and send them all to Mike Tarburton at the end of the season in a spreadsheet) but yesterday (15 Dec – approx 7pm), just as my bit of northern Sydney (North Turramurra) was recovering from 2 rather violent storm cells and I was outside tidying up, I heard a chittering above me. Circling about 20m up was a pair of White-throated Needletails – they were calling and quite clearly pair flying as the trailing bird mirrored every move that the lead bird bird made. I watched them for a couple of minutes and they were calling and flying in this manner all that time. They eventually drifted off to the east and I lost sight of them behind trees.
I’ve seen pair flying before but not so early in our swift season that I can remember.
Cheers
Tom Wilson
