Swallow

Walking down the road on a warm day means that our first stop is after just 400m, at the creek, for Bean to have a drink and cool her legs (and to stalk a floating leaf or two).

Today while she splashed about I wandered under under the wee road bridge, which is where I spotted this beautiful swallows’ nest, built around a huge bolt through the concrete. There are the remains of a less sturdy nest on the wall too.

The extra shows the intricacy of the design and construction.

I love the combination of concrete, stone, the creek, the nests and the lichen in the photo: nature making the most of a man-made structure.

There were two or three Welcome Swallows flying to and fro past me as I took the photos, but no babes in the nest.

Later on my neighbours mentioned they’d had a family of four babes plus adults lined up on their washing line up until a couple of weeks ago. We speculated that they had used this nest.

Bean joined me under the bridge and left wet paw prints behind.