Monday 14 July
The young are developing fast and today there were many more ready for ringing as well as a couple of adults one of whom was generous enough to regurgitate a food bolus for us.  These are real treats for us ands our colleagues in Entomology as they give us a really good picture into their diets and a snapshot of what the aerial ‘plankton’ of insects is made up of and certainly challenges the view that swifts feed mainly on aphids and spiderlings. We still have 65 young on the nest and 6 eggs.