There are three reasons why these Hungry Triplets are featured it today’s post.
Welcome Swallow fledglings
“Hungry Triplets”
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I’m in hospital, again, can’t believe it really as I’ve always been so fit as I happily carry my camera gear around this wide brown land. I’d never heard of the possibility of developing adhesions when I had my appendix removed – and I wish I never had. Not everyone gets them, and not everyone who gets them is troubled by them but over the last couple of years they started affecting me so much I finally followed the advice of every single fantastic person in my medical team, not that I’m stubborn or anything like that, haha, but somehow it seems counter-intuitive to have surgery for something caused by surgery.
I was hoping to go home yesterday but will skip the gory bits and fast track to the birds. Today I have wandered around the ward a few times looking for windows, most of which are heavily frosted. Then I found a narrow corridor with non-frosted windows looking across a couple of metres to wards on the other side and I saw … bird poop! Lots of it, on every windowsill. I wondered if there were Welcome Swallows nesting but there are no signs of nests, only regularly spaced pipework under the eaves with just enough space for small birds to perch. And just as I was hoping to identify the exciting poop a Welcome Swallow perched briefly on the roof opposite and then flew down and curved around in front of me, showing off it’s beautiful russet throat and forked tail.
Seeing a Welcome Swallow today is one reason I chose this image, the others are because one of my lovely nurses saw me looking through the lirralirra gallery and particularly liked this shot and I can’t go past the ‘hungry’ part as I haven’t eaten for days.
Hopefully next week’s post will be back to it’s regularly scheduled format.
Happy birding, stay well
Kim
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