Junior Birdmen

[KmH]

A neighbor stopped me on my morning walk and asked to photograph a small nest built on top of his porch light.

A brood of 4 Swallow fledglings packed into their nest. 85 mm, heavy crop. I had my 24-85 f/2.8-4 walk around lens on the camera.

I went home, put the 80-200 mm lens on, went back and got this. Mom and Dad were both dive bombing and screeching at me for both photos trying to get me away from their brood.
Both were just quickie shots and posted for fun.

 

[pjaye]

They are adorable! I had sparrow's try to build a nest on a lamp outside my door. Since it was my only exit, I had to take the nest down because I was not going to get attacked everytime I went outside. (There were no eggs in it, if there had been, I would have dealt with the attacking)

 

[Designer]

Swallows = good.

Sparrows = not good.