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HOUSEMARTINS [TARN MOOR]

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WORK ID: YFA 7103 (Master Record)

TitleYearDate
HOUSEMARTINS [TARN MOOR]1968 1968-01-01
Details Original Format: 16mm
Colour: Colour
Sound: Silent
Duration: 3 mins 29 secs
Credits: Ken Ellwood
Genre: Amateur

Subject: Family Life
Environment/Nature
Education



Summary
A short amateur film produced by Ken Ellwood of a House martin nest built in the eaves of the family home Tarn Moor Crescent in Skipton showing the adults bringing in food leading to the young fledging. The film also features a Eurasian blue tit with a nest in a birdbox and a Blackbird in a tree as well as the filmmakers son David returning home from school.
Description
A short amateur film produced by Ken Ellwood of a House martin nest built in the eaves of the family home Tarn Moor Crescent in Skipton showing the adults bringing in food leading to the young fledging. The film also features a Eurasian blue tit with a nest in a birdbox and a Blackbird in a tree as well as the filmmakers son David returning home from school. Under the eaves of the Ellwood home House martins flick back and forth from their nest bringing food to their young. In his uniform...
A short amateur film produced by Ken Ellwood of a House martin nest built in the eaves of the family home Tarn Moor Crescent in Skipton showing the adults bringing in food leading to the young fledging. The film also features a Eurasian blue tit with a nest in a birdbox and a Blackbird in a tree as well as the filmmakers son David returning home from school. Under the eaves of the Ellwood home House martins flick back and forth from their nest bringing food to their young. In his uniform David Ellwood returns home from school turning into Tarn Moor Crescent and coming through the front gate. On a wall a birdbox, a Eurasian blue tit goes inside carrying grubs for its young. Back at the House martin nest where an adult flies in and sits on the next several times. The chicks appear one at a time in the nest entrance and fly away. The film ends on a Blackbird in a tree.
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