Swallow on the ground

Tallulahthehen · #1 (**permalink**) 09-05-2008, 02:13 PM

We have a newly arrived swallow in the garden on the ground, it moves very slowly and is able to be handled. The swalows actuallya rrived about two weeks ago and until now had been in and out of the barn and flying well. I did pick it up to check for injuries but it seems fine. Any suggestions or do I just leave it and see what transpires.

witham · #2 (**permalink**) 09-05-2008, 02:24 PM

Maybe the heat has got to it. is there a decent water source in the area, as like when they feed, they usually drink in flight and scoop it up when they skim or even go under the water. or has anyone been spraying locally and its flown into it or perhaps contaminated the insects they feed on

Tallulahthehen · #3 (**permalink**) 09-05-2008, 02:25 PM

Just to add to my first post, I was astonished to see a second swallow swooping on the first and it looks like it was actually going for the downed swallows head. The downed swallow looks to be in pretty poor shape. Is this normal swallow behaviour.

Tallulahthehen · #4 (**permalink**) 09-05-2008, 02:26 PM

It has not been that warm here today, the water supply is a running stream and to my knowledge there has been no spraying f
this year.

witham · #5 (**permalink**) 09-05-2008, 03:44 PM

perhaps, as I have read in similar threads about different dead and dying birds in here it's just a case of survival of the fittest, it's perhaps an outcast for some unkown to us birdy reason, sadly they sometimes seem to turn on their own,

Kayleigh · #6 (**permalink**) 09-05-2008, 04:15 PM

The swallows around here are always squabbling in mid air. Never heard of them attacking each other but there seems be be a lot of it going on lately in different species.

Maybe its all the testosterone in the water due to contraceptives being flushed down the loo

I know the girls around here drive worse than boy racers.