In my hometown in the countryside, the house is very big and many families get together. Swallows nest every spring. In my impression, swallows always come to my house selectively. If they come late, my milk will mutter a few words. I will always miss spring!
One morning, I happened to see swallows nesting. Their mouths are full of dirt and grass roots. One keeps watch, the other builds a nest. The division of labor is clear, and the nest is built big and strong every three or four days. Many people may ask, why do swallows go to other people's homes to build nests and not come to my home?
Swallows don't nest in everyone's house. How is it judged?
First, swallows will also seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, and safety is the first condition for their nesting.
Swallows build nests, lay eggs and feed young birds. Since it concerns future generations, it is natural to choose a safe and reliable place. Old people in rural areas often say; It is said that swallows seem to have foresight and will not choose to nest in poor people's homes. For dogs, it seems that they know that their new son-in-law is a family and never yell at him.
Generally speaking, the eaves of poor people's houses are relatively low, and they are easily attacked by carnivores such as rats, snakes and cats. For example, adobe houses or thatched houses cannot shelter swallows from the wind and rain, and places with low concealment and instability are not suitable for nesting. Therefore, the eaves of wealthy families are tall and strong, which can shelter from the wind and rain, have good living conditions, have spacious and bright natural houses, and can travel freely and fly freely. These are all important conditions for swallows to nest.
Second, swallows need a quiet environment.
Swallow is a very spiritual bird and has a strong sense of the surrounding atmosphere. They can sense whether the family is harmonious or quarreling all day. If the family laughs and laughs all day and the neighborhood is harmonious, then the swallow thinks that he is very comfortable in this peaceful environment. If the family quarrels all day, disharmony often occurs, and the swallows will be frightened, so they will find a new nest.
Why I said it before; Swallows always come to my house selectively, just because the family is not harmonious for a while, and my mother always quarrels with me for a long time over trifles. Recently, I came home and found that swallows had come to my house to nest again, and I didn't go to the next door where I used to live. I think the reason is that their family is unlucky, and they often quarrel and even fight over big and small issues.
As the saying goes; Home and everything prosper, only a harmonious family will get better and better, and unity can create a very satisfactory home. Most wealthy families live in harmony and don't quarrel over trifles.
Third, the foraging environment also determines the nesting position of swallows.
All the animals in the world are the same. Only when you have food at home can you feel at ease. Abundant foraging resources are also important conditions for swallows to choose nesting sites. Because the function of swallows nesting is reproduction, swallows can produce at least four or five at a time. In order to improve the survival rate of future generations, abundant food and rapid feeding are also key.
The main food of swallows is insects, so swallows usually choose places close to farmland and lush plants. Such an environment can not only catch a large number of insects, but also help people to eliminate pests. Humans provide nesting places, and swallows help catch pests, thus maintaining a mutually beneficial relationship with humans.
The owner of the house wants the swallows to nest at home.
For some people, swallows like birds, but they don't. They always think that twittering is too noisy, and some people think that urinating everywhere is dirty. If they are in the hall, they may even fall into the bowl. So, when swallows come, some people will close the door and drive them out.
Swallows have self-knowledge. Usually it chooses to nest in your home, and will come in advance to ask if humans are willing to raise it. It will fly in front of and behind your house for a day or two. If someone drives it away, destroys its nest, or takes away its hard-laid eggs, then the swallow will turn and leave to find another home.
Swallows have a good memory. Usually, as long as you nest in your home in the first year, you will still choose the same place in the next spring, which shows that the whole family is very harmonious and the swallows feel suitable for long-term residence.
Swallows gradually disappeared from sight.
With the change of human living environment and living habits, swallows seem to be getting farther and farther away from us. Because of the current building structure, there is no fulcrum for swallows to nest under many eaves, and tiles or mud on the plane wall are difficult to attach to it. Even if the nest is successful, it is easy to fall off.
In cities, it is difficult to find farmland silt that meets the requirements of swallows' nesting. Even if there is, it is far away. Swallows will consume a lot of physical strength and time to go back and forth, and the city temperature is relatively hot. Drinking water also limits the nesting environment of swallows. Secondly, the noisy environment is not suitable for swallows' habits, and the upgrade of health concept makes people feel that swallows are not clean.
Many rural people enter the city life. There are more and more vacant and idle cultivated land in rural areas, less and less cultivated land, and the connection with nature is gradually alienated. Children in many big cities may have only seen it in books, and they have less understanding and protection awareness of swallows. Home is for living, not for idleness, and so are swallows. No matter how well the abandoned house is located, swallows will not go.
Write it at the end
All animals, including humans, have their own survival criteria, and they also have an innate ability, that is; If you seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, you will live in a way that is beneficial to you and avoid those conditions that are unfavorable to your environment.
When we find a swallow nesting, don't drive it away. It not only symbolizes wealth and happiness, but also brings good luck. Only when we protect it and know it, will it not only appear in textbooks. Being kind to animals means being kind to yourself, so that you can remember your childhood memories.