How a little swallow builds a nest and what it means for a little swallow to build a nest at home

Swallows like to build their nests under roof beams or rafters. After choosing a place, the male swallow helps the female swallow to hold the mud. They fly to the place where the water has accumulated, mix the mud with their beaks, and bring it back one by one to form a saucer-shaped nest.

The swallow nest is built from the bottom up, and every day the swallow brings a mud ball the size of a soybean, and the base is placed on the bottom of the base, and each layer moves outward, and the area gradually increases. The size of each small mud ball is very uniform, staggered layer by layer, it looks very neat, it is glued with saliva, the mud ball is very strong, and it cannot be dispersed without external force. The bottom of the nest is very small, and it gradually grows larger, and slowly approaches the roof, and the swallow will leave a gap, where the swallow continues to build a platform with mud blocks, like our balcony, and like the entrance to the house.

The bird's nest is like a cut half of a durian hanging on the roof, and the entrance and exit are the size of an egg, so it should be no problem for such a bird's nest to squeeze five or six swallows. Every time I went up and down the stairs, I saw a new change in the bird's nest, and the top row or two of mud balls were wet, like the new bricks laid by a bricklayer when building a house, all soaked in water. A week passed, and a new nest appeared around the corner of the stairs.

The strange thing is that after the new nest was built, I haven't seen the swallows living in it, so I have to decorate it, of course not. After thinking about it, I think that the new nest is not dry, and the strength has not yet reached the requirements of the swallow, just like the concrete must have a solidification period, and the nest must be placed there to dry for a period of time, and it can only be moved in when it is dry.

The swallow nests at home means that there is a happy event in the family, which will bring peace and tranquility to the family, and the swallows are trying to choose a safer place to build a nest for their offspring, so the arrival of the swallow also means that this is a treasure of feng shui.

In traditional Chinese culture, the little swallow is an animal that symbolizes a bright future, love, and happiness. It is said that the little swallow will return to its hometown in the spring, choose a safe and comfortable place to build a nest, and then wait for the arrival of its mate. When two swallows live in the same nest and depend on each other, they begin to build nests, gather food, and begin to reproduce.

This act is seen as a symbol of the newlyweds working together to create a better life in the future, and to place their yearning for marriage, family and a happy life.

However, in real life, little swallows may build a nest at home just to hatch eggs or rest. Swallows will often nest in houses or other structures where they are relatively safe and provide shelter, warmth, and food.

Expansion (the process of nesting swallows).

Find a suitable location: Swallows will choose to build their nests in high, well-ventilated, sunny places such as eaves, branches, etc.

Collect Materials: Swallows will build nests from materials such as dirt, grass, leaves, etc. They will carry these materials back and forth many times, gradually piling up.

Nesting: The swallows will bond together the collected materials to form hemispherical nests.

Laying and hatching: When the nest is complete, the swallow lays eggs in the nest and continues to hatch while the eggs are hatching.

Feeding the chicks: After hatching, the baby swallows need to be fed constantly. The parent swallows fly far away in search of insects and other food, and then return to the nest to feed the nestlings.

The process of nesting a swallow can be roughly divided into three steps:

1.Swallows will first find a suitable nest, usually on rocks and trees, or any protected place.

2.Swallows collect a variety of materials for making nests, including slender hay, branches, feathers, etc.

3.The swallows use the only branches in the wood clumps collected by Zheng Min and them, and begin to build the nest, use feathers, grass blades and branches to supplement the nest holes, then use soil to build layers of grates, shape the nests, and finally fill the small internal spaces with grass chips.

Swallows build their nests in walls and eaves. The suitable terrain in the wild is very limited, there are many flying insects in the human activity area, and the lights and farmland can attract insects, which is the main reason why swallows like to live with people. With the help of human protection, there are fewer natural predators.

Swallows are the most willing to approach humans, and humans love this beneficial bird the most. It generally breeds from the island in April to July when it returns to farms close to farmland (insects). House swallows nest under the eaves of a farmhouse.

The nest is mostly made of mud and grass stems bonded with saliva, and the inside is covered with fine weeds, feathers, rags, etc., and some Artemisia annua leaves.

The material of the swallow's nest is relatively simple, that is, the soil, grass roots, and the swallow's saliva are mixed together. They fly to the river to peck at the wet mud, form a pellet, and then retract it, add residual feathers and straw, and build a nest under the beams or eaves. Before building a nest, the swallows will "step on the spot" to choose a place beforehand.

When building a nest, the swallow lays mud inside the nest and squeezes the mud ball from the inside out, so although the outside of the nest is uneven, the inside of the nest is relatively flat.

Swallows' nests are usually chosen to be made under the eaves of inhabited houses, because where humans live, there are more mosquitoes and more abundant food**.

It takes at least ten days for male and female swallows to build a nest together, going back and forth several times a day to build a 3-4 cm mud wall.

The swallow is a spiritual animal that represents; Smooth, prosperous and peaceful. They are very particular about settling down and nesting, and they will never settle for it.

When I was a child in the countryside, if there were swallows flying to build a nest, it meant that the head of the family was kind and well-off. Therefore, who has a swallow's nest is an enviable and jealous thing.

I heard the old man say that swallows are very spiritual, if there are swallows flying to build a nest, it will bring good luck to the main family, and it must not be driven away, let alone piercing the nest of the good barrier, which will attract bad luck.

Although this Jian Dong Bi is more or less superstitious, the nesting of the delphinium can also show what the family scene is like. So how do swallows choose to build their nests?

The nesting houses are bright, tall, airy and light-seeking.

It's the same with people, only such a house will be comfortable to live in, and swallows are no exception.

Sitting north facing south house.

The house facing north and south gathers the wind, warm in winter and cool in summer, with abundant sunlight and a stable magnetic field.

Friendly and loving family.

The swallow will observe before choosing a nest, and if the main family quarrels a lot and is unfriendly to it, no matter how good the house environment is, it will leave.

Therefore, the swallow chooses the nest to look at; Hard environment, that is, the structure, orientation, and lighting environment of the house; Second, let's look at it; soft environment, which mainly depends on whether the head of the house is benevolent and friendly. When the two are satisfied, they will build their nests, and although the families with swallows nesting are not rich and noble, they must be benevolent and harmonious!