Birdwatching - 1638 🐦

🦉 The sand martin (Riparia riparia), also known as the bank swallow (in the Americas), collared sand martin, or common sand martin

📚 Riparia ripa (lat.) river bank, riparius coastal

I keep posting pictures of these birds. As I said, in order to photograph these birds, I had to lie down in the grass at the very edge of the cliff. And only after that the birds calmed down, they realized that I did not pose a danger. They hunted over the river and the meadow, and then returned with prey to their holes, where the nestlings were waiting for them.

And it seems to me that these burrows are used from year to year. Although the birds may dig new ones. But there is a lot of this on the coast, because the birds live in huge colonies and are very close to each other. It's literally like a huge hostel.