1
During the summer a house martin's nest with four chicks fell off the wall of my neighbour's house.
2
I suggest that you let the house martins take their chance.
3
Last year, house martins constructed a nest on the gable end of my house facing eastwards.
4
No, the latter were not house martins, unfortunately.
5
About late June I noticed an absence of house martins, and in August I took down the nests.
6
As far as I could see, it was not a competitor or a predator of the house martins.
7
I spotted a kestrel being buzzed by three house martins over a field well away from the house martins' nests.
8
Madam, - While playing golf at Bantry Golf Club last Wednesday I saw four house martins flying above the 10th green.
9
- Paul Lennon, Banbridge, Co Down The house martins were probably protecting fledglings from the kestrel.
10
"Tracy said that come spring a pair of house martins nested in that pear tree."
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"I'm looking for the house martins."
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"It is a shame to see how the pretty house martins are decreasing in this country at the hand of the sparrows," he continued.