Swift half news - 26th April 2010

• Still no obvious "other half" to our roosting (male?) swift, although for the first time this afternoon I did see (and hear) five (other?) swifts high over the garden, coming in from the south. I guess we're still not even in May yet, so there's time.
• The swift leaves the roof at around 07:15am each morning and returns briefly to the roost late in the afternoon to make sure all is ok - then finally returns to bed down for the night at 20:24pm (tonight).
• Took the tiles out of the pond today and found lots of caddis fly larvae (which had constructed little homes from vegetation (like hermit crabs)).
• Also found a leech - but I'm not sure where the tadpoles are?