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Australia’s most widespread swallow, the Welcome Swallow can be seen fluttering, swooping and gliding in search of flying insects in almost any habitat, between city buildings, over farmland paddocks, in deserts, wetlands, forests and grasslands and every habitat in between.
Hirundinidae
We walked along the path until we could see a bit out over the water.
Saw this Welcome Swallow on a snag, unfortunately I couldn't do much about the direction of light.
.... babies?
We left the hide and followed the path to the shore, and there, on an old fence post sat these two adorable Welcome Swallow fledglings!!
Adorable!
... and there in the reeds, waiting patiently for mum or dad to arrive with some food, was this sweet wee Welcome Swallow, obviously not too long out of the nest.
On the surface they do look rather like our Barn Swallows, but these guys lack the black band under the red throat.
I'd was walking up to the car park area (to gain access to the weir... more of which later), when I saw these two Welcome Swallows land on a wire more-or-less over my head.
.... was a Welcome Swallow sitting on one of the bollards as we were docking.
Then we had a nice lunch in their cafe before setting off exploring again.
I then got myself some practise with flying swallows, there were plenty about collecting mud for their nests.
This show I was quite pleased with though as I'd got three pretty well focused birds, and some nice colour on one of them.