Categories DavidYoung swallow preening Post author By David Post date 16 August 2012 This sequence shows a young swallow preening.It was so wrapped up in what it was doing that it carried on as I came nearer and nearer to the post it was perched on.The pictures were taken by the estuary of the river Exe in Devon. ← Cormorants, Exeter, near the Quay → Wild arum berries ripening, Ilfracombe