I’m not sure without returning to take a more considered view, but yesterday whilst driving through the village of Sharpthorne near East Grinstead, my thoughts turned to the imminent return of the summer flying spectacle by the village’s most reckless inhabitants – swifts!
However, as I drove past the tallish building in the middle of the village that houses their nesting colony, I was dismayed to see that it has had all its fascia’s renewed in plastic, with very likely, no allowance made for the swifts to gain entry to the building’s roof space? If I’m correct, such a sad shame. When I lived in the village a few years back, I used to be enthralled by their overhead antics during the evenings.