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Pingu

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Re: Swift nest camera
« Reply #25 on: 11 July, 2024, 09:22:25 pm »
I still haven't seen this nest camera move - money back please  :demon:
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Wowbagger

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Re: Swift nest camera
« Reply #26 on: 11 July, 2024, 09:33:23 pm »
Bolton & Bury Swifts have a facebook page and I think it was yesterday that they posted a video of the outside world, showing the hole in the brickwork which has a tube leading to the nest fixed within their loft. I don't know if that video is on youtube. I'll have a look.
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Wowbagger

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Re: Swift nest camera
« Reply #27 on: 15 July, 2024, 08:08:39 pm »
All three chicks still in the nest as of this evening. Only one visible to the camera at the moment, but the other two have shuffled along the exit tube. I suspect they are big enough to look at the outside world now. BABS (Bolton & Bury Swifts) reckons it's been a pretty lean year insect-wise so it could take them longer than the (average) 42 days from hatching to fledging. Today is Day 40 since the first egg hatched.
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Wowbagger

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Re: Swift nest camera
« Reply #28 on: 16 July, 2024, 10:00:32 pm »
The first chick fledged at 21.45 today.
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Swift nest camera
« Reply #29 on: 17 July, 2024, 10:28:08 am »
Happy flying.
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Wowbagger

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Re: Swift nest camera
« Reply #30 on: 18 July, 2024, 05:30:48 pm »
Another chick fledged at about 2pm today. There are photos on Bolton & Bury Swifts' facebook page of the two chicks looking out of the tunnel onto the outside world.

BABS says she hopes the last one will stay another couple of days because it was definitely the runt of the litter and could do with a boost from both parents. Now the weather has warmed up there should be a lot more flying insects as well. She says these particular parents have done incredibly well given how bad the weather has been throughout June and early July.
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Swift nest camera
« Reply #31 on: 18 July, 2024, 07:31:18 pm »
Nest looks empty now.
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Wowbagger

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Re: Swift nest camera
« Reply #32 on: 18 July, 2024, 09:38:08 pm »
It doesn't now. One chick left. It quite often disappears up the tube to stare at the outside world.
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Wowbagger

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Re: Swift nest camera
« Reply #33 on: 18 July, 2024, 09:39:23 pm »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GgiV0zy7-M

Here's another one in London whose chicks are way behind the Lancashire pair's.
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Wowbagger

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Re: Swift nest camera
« Reply #34 on: 18 July, 2024, 09:41:16 pm »
From the London swft nest:

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Timeline:
7th May - Swifts Returned
28th May - 1st Egg Laid
30th May. - 2nd Egg Laid
2nd June - Both Eggs Discarded
11th June - 3rd Egg Laid
13th June - 4th Egg Laid (Currently 2 in nest)
3rd July - 1st Egg Hatched

So they are feeding only one chick. It ought to grow pretty rapidly.
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Wowbagger

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Re: Swift nest camera
« Reply #35 on: 20 July, 2024, 09:13:44 am »
The last chick in Bolton was still in the nest at 9.10 this morning.
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T42

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Re: Swift nest camera
« Reply #36 on: 20 July, 2024, 10:45:08 am »
Quote from: Wowbagger on 20 July, 2024, 09:13:44 am
The last chick in Bolton was still in the nest at 9.10 this morning.

Herman's Hermits, 1965?
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Wowbagger

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Re: Swift nest camera
« Reply #37 on: 20 July, 2024, 10:58:12 am »
Quote from: T42 on 20 July, 2024, 10:45:08 am
Quote from: Wowbagger on 20 July, 2024, 09:13:44 am
The last chick in Bolton was still in the nest at 9.10 this morning.

Herman's Hermits, 1965?

Apologies, m'lud. I believe that to be a Popular Beat Combo and I am therefore not qualified to comment.
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Wowbagger

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Re: Swift nest camera
« Reply #38 on: 21 July, 2024, 09:57:21 pm »
The third swift left at 9.27pm today.
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Wowbagger

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Re: Swift nest camera
« Reply #39 on: 22 July, 2024, 12:31:26 pm »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jZn0OtuYJQ

Another nest box with 3 chicks, this time in Norfolk.
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