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Thanks aristo - not by us birdwatchers! (Seriously, they are both fast small birds that chase insects, but you would have to be very confused to mix them up!)

...and also geting.

Their wing shape is totally different, as is their call.

Where I live I have seen lots of swallows this year, and quite a lot of martins, but, so far, precisely three swifts!

Agreed. Only superficially similar, but…

https://www.audubon.org/news/is-swallow-or-swift#:~:text=These%20avian%20aerialists%E2%80%94swifts%20and,adapt%20to%20their%20shared%20environment.

Thanks again aristo. Ours are even more distinctive than yours; they have more distinctly sickle-shaped wings, and are uniformly very dark brown.

https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/swift

Ah. But I suppose if you just saw that forked tail zipping by you might mistake it for a swallow.

Choke - with marshmallow I snaffled; anyway, no harm, I’m kind of upset. (7)

No swifts were used or abused or confused in this.

Help with geeker @15?

(Orwell was mad)* = (swallow dream)*

Thanks, jono. I saw the anagram fodder but don’t see how the definition works, or “to thus believe”. I can be dense.

A bit over an hour till voting opens ...