ACT bogey bird slow to fall, swiftly

[Matthew Frawley <>]

Nice one Harvey.  I first saw the Fork-tailed Swift on 2 February 2006 over Woden and so it was just shy of 13 years until I saw them again, which was yesterday over Wanniassa and Gowrie.  This morning, I have been watching them over my house in east Kambah from just after 9am and then in Mt Taylor Nature Reserve from 9.30-10.30 and then again directly over my house until 11am.  I couldn't put a number on how many I saw but there were at least 20-30 of them.  I wonder how many are over Canberra, considering people were seeing them in Fyshwick, Kaleen and Civic at similar times?

On Sat, 19 Jan 2019 at 11:19, Harvey Perkins <> wrote:

Pacific Swift has been my ACT bogey bird for years. Every time there have been reports of them previously, I was never able to catch up with them. Finally, with all this Pacific Swift activity, I have just watched about a dozen of them circling over the Gleneagles golf course for about 30 minutes (10:34 to 11:03). [Just as well - if I couldn't see them this time, with so many about... ] They then drifted slowly off to the south.

Number 259 for my ACT List for anyone who cares!

Harvey