This is just a brief note to mention we have a pair of Welcome swallows nesting in our carport at Casa da Ayre, Belmont North, NSW. We observed them actually commence nest building on Saturday 14th September 2014, but they had been zooming around the general area of our house for about a week prior.
They took about a week to build their nest, and they roosted beside it every night whilst it was being built. I don't know if this had any bearing on where they decided to build, but there is a paperwasp nest approximately 1.5 metres away from their nest.
To be honest, I was a bit surprised where they chose to build, because it is under the roof of our carport, directly over where my wife parks every night, and the external exhaust fixture of our air conditioner. Hardly low traffic, and hardly quiet.
We have deliberately minimised our activities around the area they have built their nest to minimise the chance that they will abandon the site. So far so good, because they appear to be incubating eggs at the moment. Sooner or later we will get around to photographing them, but it is just a very pleasing thing to observe. Welcome swallows are hardly rare or threatened. But they are native, incredibly beautiful and a wonderful part of Casa da Ayre.
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