Stephen Stephen
07-05-2008, 06:36 AM
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Two summers ago, while vacationing on Prince Edward Island, I had my first opportunity to create images of Bank Swallows. I was fortunate enough to be there over several days when the young birds were getting ready for their first flights.
I noticed that often more that two birds (e.g. 3-5) at a time would hover near the mouth of individual burrows. They seemed to be encouraging the young ones to fly. While I expected the two parents to be doing this I wasn't sure if this was a behaviour of colonial birds or, perhaps the other birds might have been earlier fledglings from the same burrow. (Although you can see them all in this poor image there were three young ones in this burrow and, one of the adults I believe has just landed outside.)
Two summers ago, while vacationing on Prince Edward Island, I had my first opportunity to create images of Bank Swallows. I was fortunate enough to be there over several days when the young birds were getting ready for their first flights.
I noticed that often more that two birds (e.g. 3-5) at a time would hover near the mouth of individual burrows. They seemed to be encouraging the young ones to fly. While I expected the two parents to be doing this I wasn't sure if this was a behaviour of colonial birds or, perhaps the other birds might have been earlier fledglings from the same burrow. (Although you can see them all in this poor image there were three young ones in this burrow and, one of the adults I believe has just landed outside.)