feeding chimney swifts
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- These are chimney swift babies at a wildlife rehabilitation facility. They were there for several weeks and are almost ready to be released. Most were brought in as small nestlings (very few feathers) after being found by citizens, most often in their fireplaces or homes after the nest accidentally fell down the chimney. If found they must be taken to a licensed rehabber for proper care and release. You can usually find a rehabber online or through your state's environmental protection dept. Better yet, you can help them by blocking the flue during the summer, so if the nest falls, the parents can still get to the babies and continue to feed them. They will climb up the inside of the chimney to get out when they are ready to fledge.
I interned at a rehab center last summer and fell head over heels for these tiny but loud as all get out babies. Thanks for uploading this, because now I can remember them through this
I'm a rehaber and my favorites are baby red bellied woodpeckers but now these are a close second. I have a chimney swift and he is the sweetest thing. He loves to be held! 😍
Swifts are so wonderful! We have had red bellied woodpeckers this summer also. They are like funny little terradactyls!
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This bird food
Need Advice one was on my Balcony 15 stories up my Cat got ahold of it 4x but its still alive🆘️
My chimney has been host to families of these little cuties for 24 yrs now . I made the mistake of installing a spark arresting cap one year and had to go up and cut an access hole at 10 pm because they were throwing an absolute fit .
They're soo cute! 🥺
omg they are flippin adorable...
Agreed
These birds move and act so quickly, they look like they're moving at 3x speed lmao
That one bird is like, Oh snap is this going UA-cam? Lemme get close to the camera.
Even more cuter and adorable than bats are, but just have may more louder sounds and have more flapp of wings, and they ALSO EAT WORMS TOO!!!!
Sometimes they sound like old printers from the 80s.
lmao
they sound more like bats
Omg! I laughed so hard reading your comment about old printers! You're so right! Haha!
Cute!
Bless you!❤️❤️
Wow! That's so wonderful of you to do that for the babies!
Excellent 👌 thanks for your kindness ♥️
They have nested in our chimney,summers for maybe 10 years They left about 10 September and now first of May. They have not returned yet this year and I am waiting. The young really make a racket. I enjoy hearing them setting in my family room near our fireplace.
I hope you have your Chimney swept each year after they leave
This made me very happy, birds are my biggest weakness
They Are so cute! Its sorta funny because me and my dad and i have been looking at Chimney Swifts and this popped up on his recomended, Still So cute! And the one on ur shirt is funny 😂😂
I cant belive i said Me And My Dad and I, 😆😆
Reading about swifts on wiki and elsewhere, they only come down to earth to nest, otherwise staying aloft full time. The fact they don't come down to earth supposedly gives them weak feet, but if so then why are they able to hang on to a wall (by their feet) for such long periods of time.
Their feet are designed to support them clinging to a surface. That is how they rest. They do all their eating while flying
My sister and I just rescued one and we don't know what to feed it or how. How should we care for it until someone from wildlife arrives?
I know that 11 days have gone by since you left your comment, that I thought that I would give it a shot anyway with some advice in hopes that it'll reach you in time, or rather that you won't need my advice cuz hopefully you've already acquired the correct information from somebody knowledgeable by now. But, when you find a baby chimney swift that has fallen into your fireplace from the chimney then you would be advised to lift the bird is far up into the chimney as you can reach to where there is rougher feeling brick and allow the baby to climb onto the wall and attach itself. Then you will need to close your damper on your fireplace or cut out some cardboard 2 block the babies from falling back down into the actual fireplace again. The babies will literally crawl up the walls all the way back up to where they're supposed to be with the other babies if the babies keep falling down into your fireplace somehow though and you cannot get them to climb back up into the fireplace on their own like I have had happen then just make sure that your fireplace is cleaned out and allow the babies to stay in your fireplace and hopefully the mother will come down and feed it while inside of your fireplace. On the other hand, if the mother does not seem to be coming down and feeding the baby while it's in your fireplace then you can absolutely take it upon yourself to feed the babies in the meantime. If they are NOT fully feathered fledglings yet, then you can smash up some of a hard-boiled egg and finely ground organic oatmeal with a very slight bit of water (just barely enough water to make it into a bit of a runny paste thats like applesauce consistency.... AND BY THE WAY, PLEASE BE SURE TO NOT TO EVER GIVE A BABY BIRD WATER ALONE, BCUZ IT WILL KILL IT) and then feed the babies little bitty scoops of this runny paste and you can use something like tweezers or even a toothpick that is dulled down on the sharp point. Of they have FULL feathers then they're a fledgling and should he left where it was found as the parents are always near by their fledgling. But after observing for a few hours, it seems that the fledglings parents are NOT taking care of it (if it's obvioulsy hungry over hours on end, then the parents might've been killed by a predator and I would say to feed it. You can find FLYING bugs outside and feed the baby that, OR you can go buy some wax worms at your local pet store and feed them those as meals, but DO NOT feed them mealworms as they have a very hard exoskeleton that is hard to digest. And again, call a local wildlife rehabilitate ASAP👍
If you do have them inside of your house to feed them though, please be sure to keep them warm as they not only have higher body temperature than humans do but they also reside inside of hot chimneys during the summer months of the year. Too much of a temperature change can cause organ failure! If you honestly do not think that the mother has been coming back and taking care of the baby while in your fireplace though, and you cannot get them to climb up the chimney back to where they belong, then please call a local wildlife rehabilitator that specializes in Birds. I truly hope that this information isn't too late, although I have a feeling it is, but at least you now will have the information that I have gained and hopefully it will help you either in the future or help somebody else that reads this as there's not much information on what to do with baby chimney Swifts that have fallen from their nests.
I wish you and the little baby bird good luck, may God bless your kindness!!! ❤
THEYRE SO CUTE
I am currently on day 9 of caring for 2 babies that fell into my fireplace after their nest broke into 2 pieces...they are feeding well and hqve now grown all of their feathers and are beginning to open their eyes...can you advise me on how to prepare them to be released? Is it possible to release them when they will be ready about Sept 1...the problem is I don't see any swifts flying around anymore and so that concerns me
Do you have any wildlife rehabbers near you? They need to be released at a roost location into a group of swifts. Depending on where you are, they could be leaving very soon depending on the weather. Again, best thing to do is try to get them to an experienced rehabber.
Did you find them that old? Because whenever I find them they are hatchlings.Their nest usually falls down my chimney and the mother never comes back...
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I also found a baby swift am looking for its nest but couldn't find. What should i do?
@@Jaydeep-ve4jy it is a hard task , i took him inn did feed him insects and egg yolk for close to 4 weeks it is night and day
@@gardini100 Thanks for replying, i did keep it for 2 days...feeded him with sugar water as it wasn't eating anything...searched a lot for insect food but i could only find blood worms at the local vet shop which they said cannot be given to baby swift...later i handed over to the bird rescue team...hope he is alright
Hatchling like you're talking about get brought in to a rehabilitation facility after people find them in their living room.
We think we have them in our chimney now. The sound we hear though is more like a rattlesnake! We live in Maryland.
My girlfriend and I have them this year in NC. They sound like a rattler to me as well.
We live in NC and they nest in our chimney all the time. Only thing is sometimes the fledglings fall into the house. We it them in a yogurt container on a broom stick and put them back in the chimney and the parents will keep looking after them
@@gabegu5102OMG, that is sooo smart, I'm so grateful to have come accross your comment!!!!
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Could you please explain in further detail exactly how you got the yogurt container to stay on the end of the broomstick?
I'm in North Carolina as well and I just had to nestlings fall down into my fireplace 2 days ago and I cannot seem to get them to STAY up in the chimney when I put them up there by hand (like a rehabilitator directed me to do). They will grip on to the brick wall of the chimney while they're up there no problem, but then they fall right back down in just a matter of time. It's now been 2 days and I still can't get the babies to stay up IN the chimney. It doesn't seem like the mother has been coming down to feed them while in my fireplace either. Poor babies!☹️
I would greatly appreciate if you can explain how you got the yogurt container to stay on the broomstick?😁👍
@@angelamendoza590 I just used duct tape to hold it to the end of the broom stick. Some times I use a milk jug and cut it out and stick it up in they are bigger. I live in a older house and the chemmy opening is really big so it is easy to stick them up in there. Sometimes they still fall in but I just stick them back up in there. Sometimes I have to do it a couple times a week but most of the time they are near being able to fly on their own when they are getting that big
THEY ARE ADORABLE!!!!
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I just saved 2 surviving baby chimney Swifts whos nest fell all the way down to the water boiler 😥 had to rip the exhaust flue off to rescue them. Poor babies.
great job!!
I have new favourite birds now 🥺
I found a baby swift on the road above a huge really tall tree we couldn’t get it back into the tree so we naught it home and we are not sure what to do it is still alive we have made a nest and it has fed once what should we do
dead worms?? or live
Is that a worm?
I saw some photos on Flickr that some chimney swifts perch on a branch of a tree, but they said chimney swifts can't perch on a tree. I am confused.
Some experts can tell me what is this all about. Thanks.
Are they orphan swifts or it's just extra feeding for them?
talkative boys at the dinner table
Omg I need a chimney cover. I can't even hear the TV they're so loud throughout the house!!!
Hahahaha. We say that every year but in the beginning we love them and then they get louder and louder..... lol
Let them stay! Its only a month or so and they need chimneys to nest in to survive! You’re so lucky to have them! 😁
@@vjltrtle I love these birds and have been wondering where they nest. Just around 10 days ago I noticed that they are in my neighbor's chimney. I've been recording them going down every day. Also have footage of a few that got caught out during a windy rain period. I'm concerned about them (about 20 go into my neighbors chimney) so I'm filming while trying to keep their secret safe. I wouldn't mind if they used my three available chimneys.
Super cute
What are you feeding them can I get them name of it?
Mealworms.
What's Price of that one bird if I want to buy
You can't buy one it's illegal in my state they don't allow people buying these types of birds and plus they are declining you can't have one for a pet you could go to jail for keeping something like that as a pet
Wow what a sight
Are feeding them with mealworms?
Yep. Drowned ones.
yes
I can't get the baby swift to eat worms and we don't have a wildlife rescue.
Oh no. I hope something worked out for you.
How did u get a dozen babies? This is several nest? All the parents abandoned them? Are u a resue place?
Yes they are at a rehabilitation facility and come to us a few at a time as citizens find them, usually after they fall down the chimney into the house.
HELP...!...Found swift baby chicks on the floor. The local cats had disturbed the nest and the mother rejects them...very small...I have them in a box keeping them warm. But what can I feed them with syringe and if they survive what else?
thankyou
You would contact a rehabber in your area if you wanted help for something like this.
That once in your tummy sure is hungry
Please help me
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I am interested in using this footage for a project. Are you open to licensing?
Sorry such a late reply. I don't know what that entails.
@@vjltrtle No worries. The project has already been completed. Thanks!
Eat me their mother's hat. does another bird or father take care of them
Please bring me in.
Cuties
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How could they ever evolve this way? Body of a bird and habits of a bat....
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Birdies :3
I just found one in my house....