Its been a couple of days of unseasonable weather, not what is required by breeding swifts. Heavy rain over last night then a brief lull this morning followed by heavy rain since lunchtime today. Just after my last blog, saying how pleasing it was to see them both in the nest at night, they both left and I guess were out all night. This morning when the weather was okay they were both at home then spent the afternoon in the rain on the wing. One returned at 20.15 and the other joined them at 20.30. At the moment, 22.00 they seem settled down for the night. Caught a nice clip of them together wandering around earlier. The contrast between their total mastery of the air and their less coordinated ground movements is obvious. I believe that for many years they were thought to have no legs. They do have very short legs and can easily land on a wall.

Here is the clip from earlier.

A photo taken at 22.14 tonight showing them together on the nest.