A great day. The second swift in the bedroom arrived back today. It’s poor mate has been patiently waiting for 21 days. It has been a very wet morning and the singleton was alone at 9am. I regularly check the cameras and at midday there were 2 on the nest. In my fairly brief experience this is the longest any of my swifts have had to wait for their mate.

It’s so lovely to see the pair of swifts in the bedroom together. Obviously the pair from last year. They went out soon after I spotted them at lunchtime. One returned at 5pm then had to wait til 8.30pm for the other to return. My guess was that it was feeding up after its long and what must have been a difficult last part of its journey due to the weather.