by Adele Barger Wilson, author of Bonding with the Barn Swallows
Photos and text © 2014 Adele Wilson
- Their courage in choosing to nest so close to humans
- Their amazing tameness toward humans
- Their cooperative social patterns with each other
- Their phenomenal abilities to swerve, swoop, and play in the air
- Their steadfast devotion to their offspring
- Their miraculous communications to humans
These are some of the many things that astonished me during
my personal, up-close observations of these charming little birds while they
nested on my porch. If I hadn’t recorded
my observations at the time, I would have forgotten how remarkable and often
unfathomable they were. Much of what I witnessed
was so astounding that I probably would not have believed it by reading about
it secondhand.
In my book, Bonding with the Barn Swallows, I describe all of the above and so much more. You can read about the unexpected locations
on which one beloved male Barn Swallow perched all night on my porch and why he
perched there. You can read about how that
same Barn Swallow communicated specifically to me on two occasions, once
through typical Barn Swallow twittering, and again by his body language on the
utility wire while perched next to two other Barn Swallows. You can read more about my intimate encounters with this particular Barn Swallow at http://barnswallowfriends.blogspot.com/2014/12/intimate-encounters-with-barn-swallows.html
The book contains 186 pages and 117 color photos, many of which depict
baby Barn Swallows in different stages of life.
There are also photos of the babies being fed by their parents. The reader is treated to rare photos of
juvenile Barn Swallows, nine to ten days after leaving the nest and after they
have learned to feed themselves. Their
plumage differences are fascinating.
You can easily purchase the paperback edition of this book
on Amazon. The US link is:
and the UK
link is
Part I of the book is available on Kindle in the US at:
and in the UK
at:
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