I’m glad it’s not just me that has those internal conversations with poets and poems.

I can understand it being complicated sometimes to count the swifts in flight but it sounds like you’re able to recognise ‘your’ swifts? I imagine seeing them coming in and out of their penthouse apartment door is one way but I wondered if you can also tell them apart visually and/or audibly? My experience has always been either birds bimbling around my feet or flying some distance above me. With the former I can appreciate markings and personality - even if it’s very brief interaction. Once they take flight it’s just a rushed impression of the idea of a bird rather than anything more identifiable..