  The flare activity that is observed in GRBs soon after the prompt emission
with the XRT (0.3-10 KeV) instrument on board of the Swift satellite is leading
to important clues in relation to the physical characteristics of the mechanism
generating the emission of energy in Gamma Ray Bursts. We will briefly refer to
the results obtained with the recent analysis and and discuss the preliminary
results we obtained with a new larger sample of GRBs [limited to early flares]
based on fitting of the flares using the Norris 2005 profile. We find, in
agreement with previous results, that XRT flares follow the main
characteristics observed in Norris 2005 for the prompt emission spikes. The
estimate of the flare energy for the subsample with redshift is rather robust
and an attempt is made, using the redshisft sample, to estimate how the energy
emitted in flares depends on time. We used a $H_0=70 km/s/Mpc$,
$\Omega_\Lambda=0.7$, $\Omega_m=0.3$ cosmology.
