Last year - our first summer at the house and so too for the neighbours - we had a pair of Barn Swallows hanging around for a number of days and looking as though they recognised the place. Neither we nor the neighbours could know if they had nested here in previous years, but I suspect that they had. Eventually they moved away and hopefully found somewhere to nest, but this year, we're trying to get ahead of the game by installing a starter home for them.
Barn Swallows make open-cup nests and prefer to build under an overhang so that they get at least some protection from the worst of the weather. So a quick purchase from the One Stop Nature Shop at Burnham Deepdale was in order and now I've just installed this purpose-built swallow nestbox under the back eaves. Barn Swallows should be back in the area within the next 10 days or so - so it's finger crossed time!
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