Thursday 5th June 2014 Swifts I'm very pleased to announce the swifts came back about 12th May 2014 and they are using the Swift Boxes we put up last Autumn when we re-roofed and insulated the East wing of Coppice House. The Boxes are just plywood cut to size and drilled with hole of recommended size and shaped like a horizontal 8 We took out the top brick between the rafters and screwed the plywood to cover over the hole between the roof and wall angled at about 45 degrees to the wall, cost next to nothing I think the swifts are using 4 out of 12 boxes and sparrows are using the rest. There is also one pair of swifts using a half brick slot on the west wing eves After a very wet day yesterday today has been dry and bright