Here's the latest still picture of our young swifts. Still growing fast, barely any room on the nest for the parents now! We shall be getting some wing stretching videos shortly, they have plenty of room in this nestbox. How on earth do they manage it when nesting under roof tiles?

 Another view of our young swifts taken yesterday, they're growing fast!

 Here are are young swifts in this latest video, being fed by one of the adults. As you can see, they have grown vastly since the last video!

 

 

New Babies!

At last we have young swifts! We think there are just the two this time, but at this stage it's hard to tell. Here's a video of them with one of the parent birds coming in to feed. Notice how luxurious the nest has become as well!

Here's a short video of one of the parent birds which has brought in some more nesting material.

 

 

As yet we have not seen any other swifts inspecting any of our spare boxes or flying around the immediate vicinity. There seem to be very few about and our pair are sadly on their own here on the edge of the village. Will our mini-colony ever expand?

On 7th June one egg was laid! And then on 10th June we saw two eggs and the adult starting to incubate on the 13th June. And so hatching is due about the 1st July.

 No eggs as  yet, but our pair seem settled together in Box 3. Here is a video from yesterday: