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nemfrog · 8 months

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Birds of passage. 1895. Book cover.

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#book cover #covers #bird #birds #swallows #egyptian lotus #graphic design #nemfrog #1895 #19th century #1k

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snototter · 15 days

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Juvenile sand martins (Riparia riparia) wait in their nest for their parents to bring food

by Graham Thurlow

#sand martin #swallows #birds #riparia riparia #riparia #Hirundinidae #passeriformes #aves #chordata #wildlife: uk #wildlife: europe

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antiqueanimals · 2 months

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Drawing Birds. Written and illustrated by Maurice Wilson. Published in 1965.

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#birds #passerines #swallows #Maurice Wilson

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s-u-w-i · 6 months

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Swallows!

#my art #traditional art #watercolors #hanging mobile #decoration #swallows #birds

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geopsych · 9 months

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Yesterday morning many martins and swallows were gathered near this pond on wires and trees. They would chatter then scatter in groups and feed on insects swooping over the pond like this and over fields nearby. The numbers were huge and it was wonderful to see.

#pennsylvania #landscape #birds #swallows #martins #july #summer #are they gathering for migration?

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feather-bone · 2 years

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Barn swallow

[ID: an illustration of a barn swallow in flight, facing right, on a purple background. It is surrounded by wind and leaves. End.]

#bird #swallows #barn swallow #daily creature #animals

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brooklynbridgebirds · 11 months

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Gettin' muddy! Barn Swallow in Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 2 spiral tide pool. Look for these summer nesters gathering mud in their bills at low tide!

#birds #birding #urban birding #nuts_about_birds #birdstagram #patch birding #nature blogger #nyc nature #brooklyn #brooklyn bridge park #nest building #barn swallow #hirundo rustica #swallows #golondrina

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boy-warbler · 11 months

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Bank swallow nesting holes, Scarborough Bluffs

#birds #swallows #nest #scarborough bluffs #torontobirds

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na-bird-of-the-day · 2 months

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BOTD: Cliff Swallow

Photo: Becky Matsubara

"This swallow is probably far more common today than when the Pilgrims landed. Originally it built its jug-shaped mud nests on the sides of cliffs. However, the sides of barns and the supports of bridges provided sheltered sites that were far more widespread than the natural ones. Taking advantage of these artificial locations, the species has invaded many areas where it never nested before. Although it is continuing to spread in the east, it is still more common in the west, where practically every culvert and highway bridge seems to have its own Cliff Swallow colony."

- Audubon Field Guide

#birds #cliff swallow #birds of north america #north american birds #swallows #birds of the us #birds of canada #birds of mexico #birds of central america #birds of the caribbean #birding #bird watching #birdblr #birblr #bird of the day #Petrochelidon pyrrhonota

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lendmeyourunderbelly-home · 9 months

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Barn swallows - 30x30 cm - oil painting on wood - 2023

Framed: €195, Painting without frame: €175

Available for purchase

#animal #swallows #bird painting #oil painting #summer birds #summer

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aaronofithaca05 · 1 month

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As you may have seen @katerinaaqu and I have been discussing about a head canon of hers, tatted Odysseus.

For a while we searched for Scythian tattoos as they are the closest society that allowed tattoos, we weren´t sure if in Mykenean Greece they were frowned upon but in classical Greece they were (criminals, shady or barbaric people wore them).

So to make it plausible we came up with this idea: in the middle of the Troyan war in a resupply day, Menelaus and Agamemnon find Odysseus been tattooed an olive tree by a Scythian, perplexed by this they told him that it was a nothing a king should do, shady look.

But Odysseus told them it was a memory of his home of Penelope and Telamachus, that at least if he died there it would have died with his family. Also is a display of Ody´s more flamboyant personality traits, he didn´t tattoed a small olive or branch, nonono, he tattoed a whole tree!.

As the real design is composed of branches inspired by Scythians tattoos of deer´s antlers, (the lack of trees in the steppes prevented them from forming a more floral and plant style; being deer's antlers where we find more plant 'like designs),

The olive flowers are simplifications of the actual flower,

Flowers for my beautiful wife, whom I longed for, for years

The leaves are blackouts of the originals and the olives are also simplifications.

The sweet fruit of my dear Telemachus whom I never saw growing

The images below are the sketches I made for having an idea of the placement and elements we wanted to include.

We chose the upper arm as it was more concealable and only be fully revealed to Penelope.

As you can see there´s a swallow drawing, it has it reasons, swallows (Hirundo rustica) have a year migration and came back to Europe and Greece in spring, being heralds of the season and all that entails (hope, regrowth, fertility...) but the most important attributes for us were; (Athena transforms into a swallow and flies away from Telemachus in the Odyssey). Also it is mentioned that the chord of Odysseus's bow "sang like a swallow" when he used it to kill the suitors symbolizing his homecoming.

Swallows have always been linked to journeys specially to homecoming. They idea was of one swallow (Odysseus) but swallows are paired and as a small reminder, the biggest and most ornate is Penelope, fully in flight and more artistically and Odysseus is the one below more naturalistic as he is lesser in his eyes than her. The swallows are more linear and not painted as it also seems more secretive and blank spaces for everyone except him (So he can say everything I have been writing to her)