Swift Half SWIFTS update - 17th July 2011

• Well.... the chicks are just over a month old now (from hatching) and are probably less than two weeks away from fledging.
• They're very difficult to tell apart in the nest now - having lost pretty-well all their down feathers.
• They've both been fed well for the past month and have put on some serious weight - before they take to the skies for their first (three year long) flight - they will really have to get their muscles worked out and lose a little "puppy fat".
• I've just uploaded clip number forty-six onto the website which shows both fat little chicks very nicely in the nest, during a pretty mixed weekend, weather-wise.
• Its fair to say that the nest-space itself is getting pretty cramped at night these days - I'll probably upload a video to show that as video clip forty-seven!