Barn Swallows in flight at Mount Moreland

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Barn Swallows Best Breeding Season on record By Risto Jäntti

Yes, and UNFORTUNATELY, the hot weather is here again: the temperature has been almost 30 for several days now, for tomorrow is 33 to 35 deg C to be expected. Those are almost killing temperatures for me especially because the air humidity is also high. I am tired and having headache and feeling dizzy because of the heat; I try to be indoors as much as possible, but at some point one has to go outdoors anyway. This torture will continue still a couple of days, on Friday it ought to be "just" 25 deg and after that below 20 deg.

I think swallows do not suffer much from the heat at this stage of the nesting because second brood chicks have not yet hatched. But the chicks in those two nests falling between the first and second broods can be in real trouble because of the hot tin roof. Well, there is nothing I can do about it.

The amount of the swallow chicks that fledged from the first brood is 47 birds. Now it seems there could be even 8 second brood nests if not even more, that would be one of the highest amounts ever. In a nutshell one could say it seems this will be a good swallow year.