What is the House Martin in medieval literature, known to many.People narёk its funnel.The size of the city about a sparrow swallow.But her pure white nadhvoste and abdomen, black with a bluish back, tail with a nice neckline, covered with down and feathers feet so attractive that people are always treated very gently to the bird.
City Swallow flies quickly, deftly catching insects in your path.In spite of the weak and inexpressive voice, she is very sociable.He beckons to her chicks short babbling sounds like "Chirri-Chirri" or "trick-trick."He loves not only neighbors of birds, but also humans.When a cute little family of swallows watching you, sitting on the wall of your house, the soul becomes so warm and quiet joy fills the heart.
Ever since people started living in large settlements, the city began to swallow accompany them through life.Willie Birds nests under the eaves of houses, expertly fastens them to the steep wall.It was regarded as a good sign tenants over.God-fearing people in the old days, treated them as amulets for the home and family.
City Swallow - a wonderful harbinger of rain and bad weather.However, today their number has declined considerably.This is due to the fact that swallows is becoming harder to find food and needed to build nests clay and fiber.Within the city is almost no puddles where they get their building materials.Today they rounded up the people and from the eaves of their houses, taking care of the cleanliness of the facade.
How beautiful and elegant in flight Swallow City, photos, located here reflects very accurately.At first she often-often waving his wings, and then stops and hovers in the air for a long time, while remaining stationary.Then the bird gracefully descends a tree to rest or catching prey, tenacious secures your body to the steep wall near the nest, where the chicks largemouth expect dinner.
build their nest House Martin outside the house.But its rustic cousin knows how to hit the small window in the roof of the building and arrange a house directly to the attic.During one summer, the family takes two or three generations of nestlings.Her young offspring away from parental homes do not fly away, but form a close-knit group next to the settlement.Each lays a female in a nest of three to five egg whites, but with small reds spots.First clutch done in late spring.
Currently, when cities and towns have become inhospitable to the city swallows, but because of the spraying of pesticides fields, orchards and forests, even feed them was not enough, this kind of birds still found in abandoned quarries filled with water from the waste pits.In some Western European cities are a group of people trying to protect these birds.For this high mast people establish artificial nests and bird houses for several families.Next to them, organize continuous fountains, the bottom of which was packed with clay and wool and plant fibers.
