Next spring Trevor Road is expecting some visitors. There will only be a brief window in which to see them, from April until they head back to Africa in August for the winter.
But residents of the street in Swinton, and two neighbouring ones are doing everything they can to ensure a stopover. Then they can watch the arrivals grace the skies above their gardens with their crescent silhouettes. When they do rock up their presence will be confirmed by unmistakable high-pitched "chee-ree-eee" screams.
Until late summer they will twist and glide. Local residents working with the RSPB have installed 17 swift boxes in the hope that the birds remember their short-stay and maybe return again to the ready-made airbnbs to nest in future years.
