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RE: Feathered Friday - Water Birds & Summer Visitors

in #featheredfriday • 5 years ago

Howdy lizelle! wow what a selection of birds you got there! That nest that you keep away from is super cool too!
All wonderful photos. And painting! lol.

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     5 years ago 

    That nest has been there for at least 30 years if not longer, we always wonder how they know it's there, thank you for your feedback @janton!

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      wow no kidding! ain't that somethin? oh, howdy lizelle! lol. how's it goin down there? I didn't know there were 30 year old nests, they built it well didn't they?

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         5 years ago 

        Apparently there are even 40 year old nests, they renovate them rather than rebuilding as it wastes too much precious breeding time ;) See what they say below about the attractive male birds:
        I will quote from: https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/birds/do-swallows-return-to-the-same-nest/

        What’s so special about the scruffy-looking mud-and-saliva cups that swallows plaster to beams and walls? The answer, says Robinson, is that the construction takes a lot of effort, requiring an average of 1,300 trips to gather enough pellets of material. Moreover, in her classic 2006 monograph The Barn Swallow, Angela Turner cites a Danish study that found males typically do around a quarter of the work, with the most attractive, longest-tailed individuals being the least helpful to their mates.
        As a result, it’s well worth returning to last year’s nest rather than starting afresh, especially if you’re a female that has just flown 10,000km from Africa and is now using up valuable fat reserves to form a clutch of four or five eggs. A good nest may be reused for 10–15 years by a series of different pairs.

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         5 years ago 

        Haha! those lazy males! those handsome lazy males! They just use their good looks to get by! lol. That is so good. So a good nest lasts 10-15 years so your nest must be excellent instead of just good! Thank you Lizelle!

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