#swallows — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #swallows, aggregated by home.social.
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Cicada Singing
6-Link #Rengay
(C) 2026 Randy Bradbury @moto17
& Nara Moore @NaraMoore#Poetry #詩 #NMPoetry #DailyHaikuPrompt #FallenLeaves #boisterous #Spiral #Emoetry #vibrant #Summer #Cicadas #Nature #Swallows
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„Wann gibt‘s endlich was zu essen??“
#Vögel #Schwalben #Natur #birds #swallows #nature #BirdsOfMastodon -
It’s cold up north… NOT! Look at the temperature here in #WhitleyBay
I nearly melted mucking out this morning. The stable was like a sauna.
It seemed eerily quiet today and then I realised I couldn’t see any #swallows They’re usually so noisy, chirping as they busily swoop around. It’s always a bit sad when you realise they’ve left…
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Swallows, ever busy, over the yard here this evening.
Sweet sound of summer.
A great year for them here this year.
#birds #swallows
#worldbeesanctuary
#birdwatching #summer
#clouds #nature #evening -
Good news!!! We have four swallows on the wire this morning. Our mating pair, last year’s young who has been helping all summer and one little fledging who made it through the dry weather!! The first two fledgings vanished in the drought and this survivor was the strongest of three in the next clutch. It’s a fragile achievement but bloody hell does it make me happy!
#ClimateDiary #Swallows #BirdCallOut -
Schwalbenparadies
(nur sind sie viel zu schnell und wendig für bessere Fotos) -
Lunch time!
#photography #nature #wildlife #birds #swallows
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We had 2mm of rain last night and 1mm the day before - more is very much needed. That brings July to 11.5mm (average 72mm). Sadly, the rain came to late for the 3 fledgling swallows who have all perished in their nest despite frantic efforts by both parents - the dry weather affects not just the quantity but the quality of the insects available on the wing.
#birds #swallows #drought -
#Birds #BackyardBirds #Swallows #Iowa #FediPajareo #PurpleMartin
They grow up so fast! This photo is from July 5. I kept thinking I would try to get a somewhat better shot, but I never got one.
And now the Purple Martin families have moved on. They left a couple of days ago, and I really miss their noisy songs and calls.
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Mornin’.
Swallows feeding over Small Meadow here on World Bee Sanctuary today.
Lost count at 50.
Clean wild habitat folks.
Clean Wild Habitat = Insect Abundance.
Insect abundance = Insect eaters.
It is that simple.
(Sound up)
#birds #swallows #nature
#worldbeesanctuary
#summer #insects
#biodiversity #birdsofmastodon
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I wish my whole battened
heart were a property
like this, with swallows
in every room – so at easethey twitter and preen
from the picture frames
like an audience in the gods
before an opera…—Kathleen Jamie, “Swallows”
published in The Tree House (Picador, 2004)https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kathleen-jamie/the-tree-house/9781509891825
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"Gimme Food!!!!" 🤣 🤣 🤣
Parent and chick Northern Rough-Winged Swallows. The chick is the one that's... well... swallowing. Although mama better be careful that her head doesn't get swallowed along with lunch. 😁
Photograther - Alex Nelson
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"Conference call"
#nature #swallows #wildlife #photography #flight -
#nature #schwalben #birds #vögel #swallows
So viele Schwalben fliegen kreuz und quer, dass selbst der Wetterfrosch seinen Schirm aufspannt und ruft: 'Das wird ja ein Vogelchaos – ich brauch’ ne Pause! -
"The Barn Swallow is the most abundant and widely distributed swallow species in the world. It breeds throughout the Northern Hemisphere and winters in much of the Southern Hemisphere."
"Although the killing of egrets is often cited for inspiring the U.S. conservation movement, it was the millinery (hat-making) trade’s impact on Barn Swallows that prompted naturalist George Bird Grinnell’s 1886 Forest & Stream editorial decrying the waste of bird life. His essay led to the founding of the first Audubon Society."
In the #Midwest #USA we mostly see them around small bridges over water.
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Barn swallow taking a break to chatter at me. They are a common sight, swooping and diving around the houses & in the skies of #Catalonia.
#MondaysAreForTheBirds #photography #birds #BirdPhotography #swallows #Spain
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Sheffield Swift Network Emergency Contacts
"If you find a grounded Swift, Swallow, or House Martin, seek specialist help immediately."
https://sheffieldswiftnetwork.org/emergency-contacts/#SolarPunkSunday #Birds #BioDiversity #WildLife #RSPB #Nature #Habitat #Swifts #Swallows #Sheffield #UK #SheffieldSwiftNetwork #HouseMartins
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A half-century of nesting and feeding data for the tree swallow finds that lower insect biomass (which declined by 62% overall) results in smaller birds and a decoupling of reproduction timing from peak insect abundance. The authors call the latter effect "trophic decay".
https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2607714123 (not open access)
#Science #ClimateChange #Birds #Swallows #Insects #TrophicDecay #Ecology
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Tracking of migrating swallow and martin flocks (generally 1,000-10,000 birds) over the Great Lakes, using 12 weather radars, for 23 years, reveals that larger flocks hewed more closely to the ideal path. This looks like 'the wisdom of the crowds' in action.
Flock sizes decreased by 20-30% between 2000 and 2023.
https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.aef3512
#Science #Migration #Birds #Swallows #Hirundines #Ecology #Flocking
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On warm, windy and sunny evening watching the #swallows (or are they #housemartins or #swifts ?) weave, duck and dive, before soaring up and disappearing sideways out of view is just pure delight!
I am tempted to turn on one of the irrigation sprinklers on the vegetable patch as I assume it makes insects on the plants fly up into the air and seems to increase the chance that the swallows will stay above our plot for just a little longer.