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First snatched attempt at photos. I'll get better ones if the sun comes out one evening and the lighting is better and I get my tripod out. But I think the triplets are very cute

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Congrats beat me to it, ive not seen many martins this year. And the nest that existed in the area i lived was removed last year by the house owner, after they fledged,

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Are they the birds that swoop low across the fields in the evening or are they swallows?

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Love your pics Ania ... especially the last one with the three little beaks waiting for their dinner

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That would be mainly swallows Tess, House Martins tend to be more urban.

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Last year's nest was destroyed by the winter weather, but they came back and built another one.

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But I'm very rural. So Tess could be seeing house martins. They do seem to have a fairly distinctive flight, not unlike swallows. I've had to stop leaving my back door open because twice now I've had two swallows flying in, presumably looking for nesting sites.

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That's my favourite

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Swallows have longer tails and sort of rusty breasts, whereas house martins have white chests and rumps with shorter forked tails.

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It's difficult to see what these are, just as it's getting dark they swoop and dive over the field and bushes nextdoor, I thought they were bats at first.