During the quieter summer months one of my favourite things to do is trying to find a Tree Swallow nest. While we are all probably familiar with seeing them at the numerous nesting boxes, I prefer to find a more natural one, a cavity in a tree or old snag. There is one I have been watching since they were incubating eggs. For about two weeks now they have been actively feeding young, but the moment I wait for,
… is when the young Tree Swallows are large enough to be sticking their heads out of the nest and begging for food as the adults arrive. The rest in the series as the adult male arrived to feed the juvenile.
While this feeding consisted of a beak full of smaller insects,
… he did arrive with a larger dragon fly which was deposited inside the nest.