Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
General Topics => All things that have nothing to do with Turkey => Topic started by: Hamlet on June 20, 2015, 18:46:00 PM
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Feeding time for these young Swallows, just outside our garden in Üzümlü 8)
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Lovely pictures, there seemed to be a lot of swallows around this year.
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Here are some more of their family settling down for the evening 8)
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Wow! Great photos Hamlet, so clear too. Thank you :D
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Yes, well done, thanks for sharing.
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It's a pleasure to share, thanks for your comments 8)
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We saw a swallow's nest in the ceiling of the entrance to a Chinese Restaurant in Hisaronu. We were in Umut Cafe and the Chinese was next door. The swallows were flying in and out over the customer's heads. I said to Phil, that nest is going to be a problem, as when the young are born, there will be an awful mess under it.
Next week when we visited again, it was gone...
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maybe bird nest soup.
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Where I live it is considered unlucky to destroy a swallows nest once it has been built. Anyone else heard of this?
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Great Photo's Hamlet thanks for sharing
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Personally I would take great exception towards anyone who feels it is acceptable to destroy a nest, so it would be extremely unlucky!
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Great pictures Keith! I think they came to ours later and dive bombed the pool for an hour, great to watch though. :)
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The swallows were dive bombing our pool too I love to see them.
However, I suppose it would be difficult for the owners of both restaurants to have a swallows nest where it was. The swallows would be flying over customers in the Umut restauant and also making an awful mess on the floor where people were going up and down the stairs to the Chinese. The nest was just being built, so no chicks in it. If it was removed, the swallows would have found another place to build.
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Yes Fabian, i heard that the swallows only build nests on a house they think is safe and that it is bad luck to destroy them, don't know how true that is.
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If nests are removed the swallows are not destroyed, they would build elsewhere. We live in Farm land and I have seen this happen when swallows build over front doors or entrances to barns etc., The Farmer gets a hose as soon the the nest is being bulit and when the swallows go away from more building materials, the Farmer washes away the nest foundations. This is done a few times and the swallows go elsewhere, there is no cruelty or death involved.