Babies!

There's a nest of barn swallows around our place that I've been keeping my eye on. 

 

This week, the babies hatched!

See 'em?  So cute. I think there's 3 in there.

It's interesting that they built the nest with chicken feathers.  (Well, and mud and hay, too.)  But see that orange feather in the back of the nest?  And all that fluff on the left side of the nest?  Those are chicken feathers from our chickens! 

See, we have those vent holes blocked off with screens to prevent the birds from nesting.  But it obviously didn't do a bit of good.