2005 Four Swallows Do a Summer Make

A pair of swallows decided to build a mud and grass nest on a window frame on our front porch. We tried to discourage them but they persisted and we let them be - and photographed the amazing process of nest to four eggs to hatchlings to swallows to training flights to abandoning the nest - which has now been removed from the premises. The whole process took about five weeks - incredible