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Baby Swallows at My Home

Photo and Edit: Toru Nakagawa

Birth: Jun. 9, 2017;  Leaving the nest: Jun. 24, 2017

Posted： Jul. 18, 2017

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 Editor's Note (Toru Nakagawa, Jul. 2, 2017)

My home is located in Kashiwa City, about 25 km north-east of Tokyo city center.  Fields of rice and vegetables and small woods in the area gradually but constantly turned into houses and shops in these 50 years.  From mid 90s to mid 00s, swallows had nested under our eaves and raised youngsters every year.  We could not see them for these 10 years or so.  To our surprise, a pair of swallows came back to our old nest this year and raised 4 youngsters!  I took photos of them everyday through a window of an upstairs closet, directly facing the nest at about 2.5 m.  The 4 babies got birth on Jun. 9, and left the nest as young birds on Jun. 24. 

An album of 22 photos are posted in PDF (of 4 pages, in Japanese) and also in HTML. You may click the small images to see the enlarged photos.  In the top page, 4 selected photos are shown.  --  I am very much looking forward to see them again next year.

 

In PDF （4 pages）　  (notes in Japanese)

In HTML　(You may click the small images to see the enlarged photos of 700 pixels in width.）

 

Jun. 11

Birth:  Jun. 9, 2017

3rd day:
We can see the babies today.
Jun. 12

4th day:

Feeding every 3-10 minutes.
Parents happen to come one after another.
Jun. 16

8th day:

A baby with a long neck.
The nest was originally made mid 90s,
at the root of a down-light

Jun. 17

9th day:

4 baby birds are waiting and waiting for foods.
The normal pose for them.

Jun. 17

9th day:

Feeding is usually done quickly
in one or two seconds.

Jun. 19

10th day:

Parents bring a dragonfly from time to time.
This time the parent show a dragonfly for about 10 seconds before feeding.

 

Jun. 20

12th day:

The babies grow quickly.
The right-most young
does a poo outside the nest.

Jun. 20

12th day:

Young birds on the nest edge show their whole body.

Jun. 21

13th day:

Has got a dragonfly.

Jun. 21

13th day:

Swallowing a dragonfly.
(The left-most bird)

Jun. 22

14th day:

3 big yellow mouths like babies,
but a strong face as a youngster.

Jun. 22

14th day:

Young birds on the nest edge.
Yellow beaks mean they are young.

 

Jun. 23

15th day (The day before leaving the nest)

Young birds spread their wings
at the nest edges.

Jun. 23

15th day:

Parents demonstrate flying around repeatedly.
The bird on the light top is a parent (with black beaks).

 
Jun. 23

15th day:

A young bird is practicing to flutter the wings,
its feet are almost off the nest edge.

Jun. 24

16th day:  Left the nest!

All the 4 young birds left the nest before 7 a.m.
They are staying on the electric wires
near my house.

Jun. 24

16th day:

The young birds are still fed by their parents.
Jun. 25

17th day:

The 4 young birds are flying around high in the air.

 

Jun. 25

17th day:

Swallows flying around the nest.
A parent (?) outside, while a young (?) inside.

Jun. 25

17th day, evening 8 p.m.

3 young birds sleeping on a door lamp case at my home.
The 4th bird was sleeping together but left when I opened the door.
Jun. 29

21st day:
Swallows staying on the electric wires near my home.
4 young birds in line,
and the parents together.

Jun. 30

22nd day:

2 swallows flying around the nest
(at the root of a down-light).
Youngster (?) or parent (?).
   
   

 

 

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Last updated on Jul. 18, 2017.     Access point:  Editor: nakagawa@ogu.ac.jp