Swift half news - 27th April 2010

• Day 4 of occupation of our roof by the lone swift and..... I think he's found a mate!


• This evening I watched two swifts courting (well... not fight anyway) in the skies above the house and as I type, one has gone in and I think (she?) is starting to arrange the grass strands in the space - mixed in with a little swift saliva.


• I think (she?) looks sleeker and prettier than (him?) also -but I may be wrong here.


• Anyhoo - there are definitely two swifts interested in the space now, and if I was a gambling man, I'd put money on the female now occupying the space.


• I'm recording constantly now (its tea-time for me and my mate) so I'll see soon enough if I was right I guess...


• Other news - Malu caught a holly blue butterfly today and I wrestled it off him before he could eat that too...


• Another queen tree bumblebee in honeysuckle this afternoon also.


• Full moon tonight -sometimes known as the egg moon or seed moon or growing moon in the UK in April...