Cyril Ruoso / Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica) migratory flock of forty birds perching on telephone wire, Poitou, France

Cyril Ruoso / Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica) migratory flock perching on telephone wires along road, Poitou, France

Cyril Ruoso / Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica) parent feeding begging fledgling, Bourgogne, France

Cyril Ruoso / Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica) group gather in Picardie, France before migrating to Africa

Cyril Ruoso / Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica) chicks in mud nest begging for food, Picardie, France

Cyril Ruoso / Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica) mud nest with begging chicks inside building, Picardie, France

Cyril Ruoso / Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica) fledgling on the morning it left the nest, waiting for the parents to bring food, Picardie, France

Cyril Ruoso / Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica) fledglings on the morning they left the nest, begging for food from parent, Picardie, France

Cyril Ruoso / Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica) nest inside a storage room at a farm, Picardie, France

Cyril Ruoso / Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica) chicks begging in nest over a horse stall, a favorite nesting place for swallows because of the heat coming up from the animals below, summertime, France

Cyril Ruoso / Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica) chicks begging in nest over a horse stall, a favorite nesting place for swallows because of the heat coming up from the animals below, summertime, France

Cyril Ruoso / Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica) bringing food to chicks, spring, France