The Swallows Nest

[Pat "5mph"]

How cute they are!

 

[Hill Wimp]

In a way i wish we could tag one of them and follow its progress from nest.

 

[mybike]

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That last pic looks ideal for a caption comp.

 

[Fnaar]

That last pic looks ideal for a caption comp.

South Africa? You must be f*ck*ng joking! I don't even know this bloody garage yet!

 

[Herbie]

[QUOTE 3796903, member: 9609"]it would appear they have had a little flying practice within the garage (or may be even outdoors) So Day 17 is the day they left the nest. You can see in the first picture they have relocated along the ladders, may be into one of the other nests the parents bizarrely built, I would guess the original nest is a bit smelly

I do love Mr Sparrowhawk but I do hope he sods of somewhere else for the next few days, these little ones are so vulnerable in their first few days.

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Have you given them names?

 

[Fnaar]

So do they start off on the migration earlier than the parents? (Considers sending the kids off on an early holiday...)

 

[raleighnut]

Practising 'sleeping on the wing' maybe. I'd heard that the technique they used was to fly to altitude then set their wings into a glide and doze, of course this may be an 'old wives tale' along with the 'once they leave the nest for good they don't land for 2 years you know'.
I don't know if either of those are true but I've heard both of them over the years.

 

[Fnaar]

Practising 'sleeping on the wing' maybe. I'd heard that the technique they used was to fly to altitude then set their wings into a glide and doze, of course this may be an 'old wives tale' along with the 'once they leave the nest for good they don't land for 2 years you know'.
I don't know if either of those are true but I've heard both of them over the years.

I think that's Swifts, isn't it? I have recently had swift boxes put on my house walls, to encourage them. I love watching them.

 

[Fnaar]

We have a housemartin nest up in the eaves ... just been outside listening to the young'uns tweeting away. I love sitting in the garden watching the adult ones flying about in the evening. Next door have swallows in their shed every summer too.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Next door have swallows in their shed every summer too.

Does Miss Goodbody like a swallow?

 

[Fnaar]

Does Miss Goodbody like a swallow?

Yes, a Swift one. Especially while listening to the Housemartins

 

[summerdays]

So do they start off on the migration earlier than the parents? (Considers sending the kids off on an early holiday...)

My parents used to do that every summer, school would break up and I'd be at the airport heading for Northern Ireland where we would be passed around all the relatives until they would turn up 4 weeks later to join us.

 

[annedonnelly]

[QUOTE 3797221, member: 9609"]It would be very interesting, but may be somebody eleses swallows, I would be a nervous wreck by xmas checking they were still OK 50 times a day - I am bad enough as it is, this next fortnight or so I will be counting them every evening..[/QUOTE]
Not swallows but the BTO are tagging & tracking cuckoos on their journeys to and from West Africa

 

[Globalti]

West Africa or South? I know where I'd rather go.

 

[biggs682]

@User9609 this has got to be one of the best threads yet on cycle chat , so well done