swift!

Earlier in the summer when we wading through nettles in a corner of Whittlesford looking for a site for a village orchard, the south cambs ecology officer Rob Mungavin was telling me about swifts.

He had hatched a plan to use recordings of birdsong to attract swifts to new boxes built into a new development at Fulbourn re-placing old buildings where they had nested for years. Now the idea has won him a national award! - here is the detail on the rspb website. Brilliant.