Swift connections seem to be popping up all over as the journey continues to a village called Islip, birthplace of Edward the Confessor.
No prizes for guessing the bird on the Old Confessor’s crest: martlets (ye olde name for swifts).
First, scientist-swifter-mum Jocelyne Hughes, who shares an unusual swift story: mummified swifts found wrapped in a Victorian newspaper.
And then artist-swifter-mum Afra Kingdon, who has been enabling swift links with village children.
Afra talks of swifts and children:
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