Screaming Common Swifts (Apus apus) flying over their old house nest site, a pan tile roofed row of cottages in Covenham,

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Modernising these old pantile roofed dwellings, the builders cement the pantiles to the roof thus blocking up the entrances and in an instant the whole colony is doomed. I think there were about 30 pairs in this roof and when they were 'locked' out where could they go? Every other suitable site already had its own colony of swifts that, like them, had been there many years. It will be the end of the entire colony. TF336950. LATITUDE: LONGITUDE: Grange Lane, Covenham St Bartholomew, East Lindsey, Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, LN11 0PD, United Kingdom Postcode (nearest) : LN11 0PD

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Size: 9555px × 6420px
Location: Locking Garth, Louth , UK GRID REF: TF 33674 95080
Photo credit: © fotolincs / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: apus, biodiversity, blocked, buildings, colonies, conservation, cottages, eaves, failure, hadg, nest, roofs, site, swift, swift., threat, village