The fourth egg arrived in the Glenham, NY Chimney Swift nest this morning (Thursday, 06/19/08)! 

Looking at “glenham’s” camera, it does appear that active incubation by the pair has started. 

Will there be a fifth egg?  We’ll have to wait and see!  Chimney Swifts lay their eggs EVERY OTHER day so if there is a number five it should arrive on Saturday, June 21st.

You can follow the Chimney Swift nest on our forum or you can visit the Cornell Lab of Ornithology NestCams site were we are a cam host.

News Regarding The Buffalo Falcons from forum member irinash!  “We have 1 fledgling at Statler (white band). I saw her flying strong this morning, but landing was poor. Couldn’t make it to the nest just slide of the wall of the building and flew back across Franklin street. Later in afternoon  saw still 3 at the nest. After adult dropped food at tne nest box I found a fledgling on the roof of Statler. She sat on fledgecam for a while than walked right above the nest.”   Photo courtesy irinash.

Currently looking at the cam (8:15pm) it appears a second fledge has left the nest!

You can also follow this nest on Cornell’s Nestcams site:
http://watch.birds.cornell.edu/nestcams/camera/
view?cameraID=C100032

We have great news from Glenham, NY!  The Chimney Swifts started nesting in the Chimney Swift Tower!  The pair is still trying to decide on a specific location, but once they do they will build a complete nest.  Visit our Chimney Swift page for links and more information.

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT REGARDING OUR WEB SITE AND FORUM!

On Saturday the data center that houses our server experienced an explosion!  Our visitors were not able to access our web site or forum until early this morning.  Luckily our server does not appear to have lost any data, no one was injured in the explosion and we are back up and running for now.  BUT as the data center works on repairs of the damaged area(s) we may still experience down time over the next two weeks.  We apologize for any inconvience, but we are sure you all understand that this is a serious situation and beyond our control.