Juvenile swallow

[Palustris]

This is the best shot I got, but at times there were 5 baby swallows sat on this dead teee stuck up out of the estuary mud of the Dee.

[Palustris]

[Carol]

;D ;D

Good picture Eric.  I really like the swallows, marvellous birds. 

;)

[lorna]

Eric. I have never seen a close up of a swallow. Beautiful.
Lorna

[froglets]

Thanks Eric,

I only get to see them in high speed motion every few minutes as they whizz past the office window - First time I've seen what they look like.  To me they are a screech on wings :)

[pakaba]

hello
I've never seen them in this part of town before but yesterday there were a flock of them dive bombing each other as i walked back from taking my son to school,   quite fascinating to watch, until they sent a missile down to the pushchair  ;D

Great photo, good to see what they look like.

Paula

[redimp]

Thanks Eric,

I only get to see them in high speed motion every few minutes as they whizz past the office window - First time I've seen what they look like.  To me they are a screech on wings :)

Are you sure your screech on wings aren't swifts - they are the noisiest ones, and they tend to fly the highest.

[Carol]

Yes I agree with you RC. Swifts  screech, I am listening to them at the moment,   Swallows    twitter....  They have conversations with each other sitting on the edge of roofs.  twittering away.   ;D ;D

[tabbycat]

We used to have a family of swallows that made their nest in the rafters of our extension in when I was younger. Shows you how slow my Dad was at building the d**n thing - when they returned the next summer, the rafters were still there, but we had to leave the newly fitted windows open for them to rebuild the nest!  ;D

Then one of the fledglings fell down the wall cavity. We could hear it cheeping and so could the parents who were frantic, so Mum and I made Dad drill and saw out a section of the thermolite blocks that formed the inner wall.

Dad protested and said the bird would die of fright with all the noise, but we couldn't stand the thought of it having a long slow death and then being walled up in there for ever, so we insisted.

It flew out as soon as we took away the section of brick and seemed none the worse for the adventure! :D

tabbycat