| The hobby is one of the very few birds of prey capable of outflying swifts, perhaps at a speed approaching 100 mph. |
| For years, before I had my stoep enclosed with a roof, swallows, swifts and European starlings nested under the eaves. |
| However I did log a woodchat shrike, numerous barn and red-rumped swallows, a veritable swarm of common swifts, and a common buzzard. |
| Every evening, with patience, you will glimpse chimney swifts dropping into and launching out of one of our chimneys. |
| You may also find cuckoos, kingbirds, flycatchers, swifts, swallows, orioles, and tanagers in the fall. |
| For the first time this year there were lots of swifts hawking the riverside fields. |
