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WELCOME TO SUBURBAN LEEDS Welcome to edition 15 of Suburban Magazine. Hopefully by the time you receive this month’s magazine, our new website will be up and running. You will be able to see a selection of recent articles, past editions of the magazine and much more – www.suburbanleeds.co.uk This month’s edition features a few upcoming community events that I hope many of us will get the opportunity to enjoy and support. A mention as well to Steve Davey who has kindly sent in a wonderful selection of photo’s, capturing landscapes and places of interest from the local area.
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CAN YOU GIVE A HOME TO SWIFTS? By the time you read this article our swifts will be back in Yorkshire, something that fills me with excitement and joy. These amazing birds, not to be confused with swallows or martins, appear like black scythes cutting through the sky, making a high pitched screaming sound. Swifts truly deserve the adjective ‘awesome’. They eat, drink, preen, sleep and mate on the wing and, unlike swallows and martins, they never perch. They have very tiny legs and long claws, like grappling hooks, to help them cling onto the sides of their nest site. Swifts fly about 500 miles each day and sleep as high as 3,000 metres resting the left and right side of their brain alternately. Their migratory journey, between the UK and Africa and back, is 14,000 miles. After the chicks leave the nest, they can be hundreds of miles south in only 2 days. They will keep flying for 2-3 years until they are ready to mate. During their lives they fly around 2 million miles which is equivalent to more than 4 trips to the moon and back. Swifts arrive in the UK from the end of April to the beginning of May. The adults fly directly to the nest sites they used the previous year. These are in cracks and crevices under roofs and in old buildings. They are very secretive, approaching their nest at more than 40 miles an hour, coming to a stop without slowing down. Often people have no idea that they have swifts and this is why the swift is in big trouble. Householders make repairs to their roof, or replace soffits and boards, blocking up nest sites and leaving whole colonies of returning swifts homeless. New homes are built without any access for swifts at all. So what can we do? If you have heard swifts screaming around your house during the spring and summer, or you know you have swifts breeding at your home, then get some advice before doing any work on your house. You can 8 | SUBURBAN MAGAZINE
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safely do the repairs you need to make once you understand the needs of the swifts and you have followed some important guidelines. If you once had swifts but they no longer breed at your house, then chances are their nest holes have been destroyed. But don’t worry, you can get them back. The amazing thing is that swifts can be attracted to nest in boxes. They don’t form new colonies very easily so you’ll need to quietly play swift love songs to attract newly maturing birds to nest. These tend to look for nest sites later in the season. I recently set up Leeds Swifts with my birding colleague Martin Calvert, to help people understand how to conserve colonies, or provide a home for this amazing species. Find us on Twitter @LeedsSwifts or on Facebook/LeedsSwifts. Here you’ll be able to see video footage of Martin’s newly established swift colony. Leeds Swifts is part of a network of swift advisory groups led in the UK by the Swift Conservation Society www.swift-conservation.org and Action for Swifts http://actionforswifts.blogspot.co.uk/ Linda Jenkinson also runs birdwatching walks for beginners and people wanting to improve their skills. Call 07778 768719, email linda.startbirding@gmail.com or visit www.startbirding.co.uk. You can also find out what we’ve seen on our walks via Twitter @ StartBirding and Facebook/StartBirding
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RED KITES IN LEEDS If you love seeing red kites fly over the suburbs of Leeds, then you may be wondering what they feed on and how well they’re doing. Kites mostly eat carrion. When carrion is scarce they look for other food such as small mammals, amphibians and invertebrates. They are particularly fond of earthworms. Red kites are also attracted to areas where food is thrown out such as behind fast food establishments and restaurants, which is why you can see them soaring above our city. Kites used to be very common birds across the whole of the UK, feeding in the countryside and on food waste discarded by humans. Eventually they were seen as a threat to our food supply and were persecuted to extinction in England and Scotland. A few pairs remained in Wales but, as this population was slow to grow and disperse, conservation organisations began to reintroduce the species to England in 1989. The Yorkshire project was the fifth reintroduction project in 1999 and was very successful. Other reintroduction programmes followed in England and Scotland with the expectation that the kites would increase in number and disperse to cover the whole of the UK. This
is now beginning to happen which is why more and more people are seeing them. Kites are sometimes blamed for population declines in ground nesting birds but, so far, there is no scientific evidence to prove this to be the case. There are lots of other reasons why bird populations are generally declining. Find out more about the Yorkshire Red Kites on www.yorkshireredkites.net/ Information kindly supplied by Linda Jenkinson of Start Birding
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Many flowering perennials, such as delphiniums and lupins are growing away well, and it is a good idea to insert your supports now to stop them being damaged by high winds. Also look out for slugs, snails, greenfly etc, as this mild winter has increased their numbers, and they will be looking eagerly at your favourite plants. Take whatever type of precautions you think most appropriate, and then in addition spray your roses against black spot and rust at least every four weeks.
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