NESTING SWIFTS

While I've been away for a break, Andy Field has taken a variety of photos in my absence.
A pair of swifts have taken up residence in a swift nestbox on Andy house in High Street North. The box-cam showed it laid its first egg on the 23rd June.

The camera shows the pair of swifts snuggled up together for the night. A second pair of swifts is also nesting elsewhere in the roof of Andy's house - a rare treat these days to still have swifts nesting in your house!

 A pair of Sandwich terns was seen in the Pyefleet perched on posts by the East Mersea Oyster Fishery on Monday 17th.

This pair of Sandwich tern is presumably the same pair that have stayed in the Colne over recent weeks.

At Cudmore Grove the pair of kestrels nesting in the box at the back of the grazing fields appeared to have four young showing in the box on 21st June.
In the Mersea Quarters, 3 eider were seen on the 13th June by Steve Hunting.

A ringlet was photographed by Andy at Cudmore Grove on 26th June.

Ringlets have become well established at the park since first being seen there in 2012.

A red squirrel photographed by Andy in my Firs Chase garden, whilst checking the nut level in the feeders during my absence.