Swallows frequenting old nests

["Rosemary Royle" <>]

When we took a camper van around Eastern Australia in Oct/Nov 2006, we had an 
interesting encounter with a pair of swallows at Sundown NP. We took our 4WD 
van down to one of the campsites at the northern end of the park - we were the 
only ones there. A pair of swallows which had been cursorily investigating the 
small wooden toilet hut immediately came over to our van and flew round and 
round it. After about 15 minutes they flew inside and sat on the curtain wires 
twittering away. Although they were quite delightful we had to shoo them out as 
I could see  that it would only be a few more minutes before they started 
bringing beakfuls of mud in! After shooing them out they kept on flying around 
for a long while before eventually, much to my relief, they went back to their 
investigations of the toilet hut!

Rosemary Royle
Wales, UK