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Hirundo rustica
"Paella kitchen"
This years Swallows were not happy with the artificial nest used previously and have substantially rebuilt it to suit their needs!
Spotted on May 26, 2011
Submitted on May 27, 2011
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Took another photo on 5th June while the parents were away, looks like some new hatchlings and one egg still there which explains why there is still one sitting on the nest most of the time.
I have just added a third picture taken on 3rd June. This is a single frame from a digital film being recorded by a pocket camera (TZ7) in HD mode (AVCHD). It has been cropped slightly from the original size and saved as a jpg highest quality. The camera was mounted on a very stable tripod. Most frames are the same quality but when the birds do a change-over, which takes about 2/3rd second (16 frames) some detail is lost due to the birds movement!
The eggs must have hatched late yesterday while the camera was on video, lots of activity and noise, then bits of shell being thrown out. But impossible to see anything yet, might try while both parents are away.