i am just wondering when last years swallows will return back this year
Over the last few years have recorded dates when swallows return to their nests under the penthouse roof of the real tennis court at Falkland Palace in Fife, no later than:
25 April 2007
19 April 2009
01 May 2010
13 April 2011
09 May 2012
Swallows (house martins, swifts, etc) migrate from the northern hemisphere at the approach of Autumn and Winter, to Africa and warmer climes. They are reputed to return to the same nest site each Spring. By migrating, they ensure that insects are available, and they will nest and rear another brood.
Such migratory birds are commonly know as summer visitors. In Britain, swallows, swifts, and house martins are just three examples.
There is a bird that is called martin and it is a type of swallow. There are purple martins, house martins, and sand martins.
What's a house Martin
Britain has many summer visitors. Amongst the most common are: Swallows; House Martins and Sand Martins; Terns and most Warblers (e.g. Reed, Sedge, Willow Grasshopper and Garden Warblers and Whitethroat, Lesser Whitethroat). Some, like Chiffchaff and Blackcap used to be summer visitors but now sometimes overwinter in Britain.
To Ricardos house
Regularly check your houses wall insulation, make sure they are all the same temperature as house martins like to nest on warmer points.
Yes, it is extremely common.
Baby house martins enjoy to nibble on the feet of humans. They find lots of nutrients down there! To drink however, they drink their own pee
White people didn't like what he was doing. So they bombed his house.
Basically, any bird that also nests in cavities. These often include bluebirds, other swallows, wrens, and house sparrows.
Martin's Mexican house = la casa mexicana de Martin.