Alpine Swift   Apus melba

Maidenhead, Berks - 18th April 2006

Photo copyright Adrian Parker

This individual was photographed late evening over Maidenhead, Berkshire just before it drifted into Bucks.  It had been seen in the Maidenhead area since 15th April but it is presumably the same bird that was seen briefly at Little Marlow Gravel pit on 16th and at Berghers Hill a week earlier still (all within a few miles).  This was part of an influx of this species into the country with birds also seen at Hampstead Heath, Devon, Cheshire, Kent and elsewhere.  This species had not previously been recorded in the county.

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