Captured! :)

[tilia_tomentosa]

4 September was an unusually lucky day for my exercises in frustration attempts to photograph the house martins in my area. Yes, I was extremely lucky to come near this building at exactly the right time when they were flying to their nests and back feeding their young (ouch, still in the nests in early September!). I did get two photos with a blur

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[puddleshark]

Good heavens, that is late for nestlings... Perhaps this is a second brood?

What amazing birds they are, living side by side with humans!

[tilia_tomentosa]

Yes, they typically have two broods a year in Bulgaria, and now I wonder if this isn't even a third brood, being so late in the year. I wish I had watched them more closely to count the broods; now that I think of it, I somehow never notice the first brood for the year learning to fly; I guess that's because they aren't so common in my part of town as the swifts (most buildings here don't have the kind of eaves that house martins need to build their nests while the spaces between the wall panels of the soviet-era buildings are perfect for the swifts and bats

[mrdreamjeans]

I have images of you, flowing through my head, where you are scaling down the side of the building from the roof attempting to get a close-up of the Martins and their nests. :)

[tilia_tomentosa]

LOL I would totally do that if I could! ;)