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        Special Topics 特別主題 >> Swifts and Swallows 燕與雨燕 >>  Barn Swallow 家燕 preparing for nest! 
        
(Message started by: me_domchan on May 10^th, 2004, 8:41pm)

Title: Barn Swallow 家燕 preparing for nest!
Post by me_domchan on May 10^th, 2004, 8:41pm

251 Barn Swallow 家燕
Mai Po 米埔
08/5/2004
EOS 10D, 400/5.6, 1.4X, Cropping

I saw 4-5 barn swallows hovered and made frequent landing on a mud puddle at the road lead to Mai Po.  I looked thru the camera and saw that they were collecting mud (for nest, I suppose). Oh! The heavy rain in the morning provided barn swallows the nesting material!

I then kneed down 3-4 meters away from the mud puddle and wait for them to land. I observed for around 30 minutes.

I found that the swallows collected dry grass on the opposite river bank, came down to the mud puddle and flew to their nests (yet to be found). They came back and fro for a dozen of times.

#1 A swallow was stuffing mud in its beak!
http://www.fotop.net/albums/dominicchan/dominicchan56/BS_2106_MP040508s.jpg
http://www.hkbws.org.hk/fileServer/PhotoG/me_domchan/me_domchan_101.jpg

#2 Another swallow landed with dry grass.
http://www.fotop.net/albums/dominicchan/dominicchan56/BS_2110_MP040508s.jpg
http://www.hkbws.org.hk/fileServer/PhotoG/me_domchan/me_domchan_102.jpg

#3
http://www.fotop.net/albums/dominicchan/dominicchan56/BS_2112_MP040508s.jpg
http://www.hkbws.org.hk/fileServer/PhotoG/me_domchan/me_domchan_103.jpg

#4 A beak full of mud!
http://www.fotop.net/albums/dominicchan/dominicchan56/BS_2117_MP040508s.jpg
http://www.hkbws.org.hk/fileServer/PhotoG/me_domchan/me_domchan_104.jpg

#5 Mixing the mud and grass.
http://www.fotop.net/albums/dominicchan/dominicchan56/BS_2119_MP040508s.jpg
http://www.hkbws.org.hk/fileServer/PhotoG/me_domchan/me_domchan_105.jpg

#6
http://www.fotop.net/albums/dominicchan/dominicchan56/BS_2120_MP040508s.jpg
http://www.hkbws.org.hk/fileServer/PhotoG/me_domchan/me_domchan_106.jpg

#7
http://www.fotop.net/albums/dominicchan/dominicchan56/BS_2128_MP040508s.jpg
http://www.hkbws.org.hk/fileServer/PhotoG/me_domchan/me_domchan_107.jpg

#8
http://www.fotop.net/albums/dominicchan/dominicchan56/BS_2130_MP040508s.jpg
http://www.hkbws.org.hk/fileServer/PhotoG/me_domchan/me_domchan_108.jpg

#9
http://www.fotop.net/albums/dominicchan/dominicchan56/BS_2132_MP040508s.jpg
http://www.hkbws.org.hk/fileServer/PhotoG/me_domchan/me_domchan_109.jpg

#10
http://www.fotop.net/albums/dominicchan/dominicchan56/BS_2133_MP040508s.jpg
http://www.hkbws.org.hk/fileServer/PhotoG/me_domchan/me_domchan_110.jpg

Thanks for watching!

:)

(also posted on Swift and Swallow Board)