North Devon Gazette & Advertiser, UK – Sep 26, 2014
THEIR nest has gone to pot, but a family of young swallows are happy in a newly improvised home.
Warren and Margaret Golder of St Giles-in-the-Wood have welcomed the swallows to nest in their “tea house” in their Japanese style garden for the past three years.
But this year the swallows came unstuck, their mud nest falling from the timber beam to which it was attached and crashing to the ground – complete with four babies.
But the couple were at hand to save the day and Warren promptly scooped up the nest and nestlings. After a quick scratch of the head he found a plastic plant pot and nailed it close to where the nest had been cemented. Within minutes the nest and its occupants were “planted” in the pot and the parent birds arrived back to continue feeding their unharmed young. The youngsters are almost fully fledged and will soon leave the potting shed – er, St Giles-in-the-Wood Japanese Tea House.
