Spanish common name: Golondrina Peublera
These birds doesn't come to our garden, but I know them very well.
When you walk into my friend Estela's house, you pass through a small covered entry. To the left is the receiving room and dining room. Straight through the second door - an open archway - is the patio from which all the rest of the house is accessed - the kitchen, bedrooms, and the garden area.
This nest was built years ago, just above that arched door and each year a pair of cave swallows show up to occupy the nest and vigilantly guard the entrance to Estela's house. They have indeed become a part of her household.
When the front door is open, they fly in and out with the rest of us. When the front door is closed, they fly through the archway and up and out into the open sky above the garden area.
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