Bank Swallows are late migrants, so while other local swallows have chicks well underway, Bank Swallows are still preparing their nurseries. Still a month off is a view of chicks being fed as they peer from the openings.
The first thing seen was the frenetic activity of birds around the many holes in a sand bank.
Issuing from some of the cavities were plumes of debris as males excavate metre-long tunnels.
Females ferried in nesting material in preparation for chicks.
The activity of the Bank Swallows was extensive and frenetic. The bird in the lower left is carrying nesting material, and the bird above it seems to be trying to steal it. Others were coming from or going to their cavities.
