Now offline for the 2024 season, as the birds have left.
More detailed notes on swift activity are in the 2024 Swift diary.
Here is a page with some explanation of how I do the video.
| Year | Nest | Adult1 | Adult2 | Egg1 | Egg2 | Egg3 | Hatch | Fledge1 | Fledge2 | Fledge3 | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | #1 | May-7 | May-12 | Some visits but no nesting. | |||||||
| 2024 | #4 | Some visits but no nesting. |
Predicted dates above based on the average for previous nests with camera: last egg to hatching 19 days; hatching to first fledging 42 days.
Live video from some of Clarke Brunt's swift nestboxes. Click to start.
Please see the notes below.
This is nestbox #1 in which swifts raised young each year from 2012 to 2023.
In 2024, a first adult swift arrived on 2024-May-7, and a second was present a few times from 2024-May-12, but still by 2024-May-22 only one was spending the night at the nest. After a period of no activity at all from 2024-May-24, a swift briefly entered the box on 2024-Jun-12, and again for 15 minutes on 2024-Jun-25, but there was no further activity.
The static picture from 2015 shows two adult swifts and their three young.
This is nestbox #4 in which swifts raised young each year from 2014 to 2023.
In 2024, there was no activity her until a swift entered and stayed for 5 minutes on 2024-Jun-26. A swift visited for 15 minutes on 2024-Jul-10, and daytime visits were continuing by 2024-Jul-15, but ceased soon after.
The static picture from 2016 shows both adult swifts at the nest.
This is 'starling' nestbox #sb2 in which swifts raised young each year from 2018 to 2021, but not in 2022.
I haven't had video from this nest since 2019.
The static picture from 2018 shows two chicks in the nest. The live video view is looking directly downwards. The 'front' of the nestbox is to the left (as opposed to lower-right in the static image) and a piece of rough wood is fixed on this side from the floor up to the entrance hole which is just off the image at left. The swifts climb the wood to reach the hole. See here in the 2018 diary for a photo of the outside of the box, and a description of it.
I don't guarantee that the video will remain online, or will be working at any given time, so try later if it doesn't work. Please don't leave the live video running for extended periods, especially if you're not actually watching it. You can close it (and return to the static image) without leaving the page by clicking the [x] at top-right of the video, or by hitting 'q' (while over the video). Hit 'f' while over the video for full-screen, or use the icon. Clicking the video (or spacebar) will pause or re-start it.
There might be audio as well as video.