The first of our swifts finally arrived last night in Box 3, just one day late. Hopefully it's partner will turn up shortly or if not it'll find another one. Last year they managed to raise 3 young so we hope they'll have the same success this year. Maybe we'll get some takers for the other boxes, we still have four empty ones which were unused last year - it would be nice to think that perhaps we'll get the start of another colony at some stage! Here's our lone parent at the still in-situ nest from last year:
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