barn swallow

Can always tell when the babies have arrived and start growing as there is no room for the parents in the nest.

handheld; 0.00 EV; 1/2000s; f/8; ISO 400 The 4 fledglings were waiting to be fed by their parents, but - because of the strong southern wind blowing at the moment - they did not dare to take off and reach the adult birds: too tiring and dangerous! So they decided to land and eagerly wait for...

5.75 7.5 inches; Adult: Primarily tan underpart; dark reddish-brown throat; deep forked tail with white spots. Immature: Throat and upper breast tan; remainder of upper parts white; tail fork shape not as beep as adult

Taken in direct sun in afternoon so overexposed a bit which is why the background is all white. I liked the look of this shot tho.

flies in the reeds. ;);

Saw my first swallow of the year almost a week ago now, but as the saying goes - One swallow does not a summer make. Today we had three seasons worth of weather, but none of them summer. Woke up to an inch of snow on the lawn, but the sun was out and by noon it was fairly mild (10C/50F), only to...

Barn Swallow; adult male. Etg des Landes, Creuse. April 2013.

Barn Swallow Body of medium size (20 cm). Blue upper body armor. Reddish throat edge. White belly. Steel blue stripe on the chest. Very long tail with white spots on the tip of the feather. The difference with Kites stone: white belly, tail length, steel blue chest strip. Breeding...

Barn Swallow; juv. Camargue; August 2012.

Trying to get half-way decent pictures of hirundines in flight is certainly a formidable task, in particular in a situation where the light is going. This is the best of a bunch of pictures taken at a pond where a bunch of barn swallows were hawking for insects. Hirundines typically aren't that...

Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica erythrogaster) Ten subspecies have been described with 7 or 8 being recognized, author dependent. Only subspecies erythrogaster is mapped for Texas. Photographed in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, USA. Northern most part of the South Texas Plains Vegetational...

Luis Sitges http://birdingtrekkingandnaturecom-luis.blogspot.com.es/2012/08/birding-spain-june-and-julay-in-madrid.html

Taken during our 2012 vacation on Dar (Baltic Sea, Germany)

Can't let the summer go by without a "Swallow on the sign" post, every year the swallows build their nests in the Minsmere sluice The footpath signs become meeting places for the adults and resting places for the juveniles learning to fly and hunt insects. This year some bright...