Early last year I had a couple of sparrow nest boxes put up along the side of the house, and a Swift box under the front eaves. This year, for the first time in roughly six/seven years I’ve had sparrows all over the feeders, including a bunch of fledglings.
Problem is, they’ve ignored the bespoke sparrow boxes, and a pair are raising a brood in the Swift box! I’ve been hearing a lot of cheeping, and I could see some grass sticking out, so I got my binoculars and had a look, and there’s definitely one chick, I could see it looking back at me, and see the yellow gape around its beak.
So, do I just hope they all abandon the nest soon, and then hope that the swifts turn up and think it looks like a ready-furnished pied-a-terre, and settle in?
Sounds like they've gone direct to the des'res'...your luckily our boxes are empty, swifts flying all over the place, just not ours! Enjoy your wildlife:)
