Try not to disturb your tenants during raining season 雨季尽量不要打扰你的燕子

Most of us know that during raining day, a lot of swiftlets will be playing around the BH, and they will not go far for food. There is a say that during raining day swiflet will get their food easily as lot of insert will fly out from tree, after meal swiflet will play nearby BH. I will not deny that but besides I think there is an another main reason.

I notice that during raining season when I visit my BH, a lot of birds will be staying inside BH incubating, and I also notice that those eggs will take longer time to get incubated into baby birds compared to summer season. From that derives during raining day temperature of BH will drop lower around 25°C~26°C, thus those parents will need alwaays to keep their eggs warm, they take turn incubating and not going far for food and keep short. That would be the reason why during raining day many bird are around BH and stay nearby BH for food. I will never enter BH for harvesting or other activities in a raining day or cloudy day during raining season.

我们大多数人都知道，雨天会有很多燕子在燕屋附近围绕，就算他们出去觅食都不会太远。有个说法是，在雨天大量的飞虫会飞出来，燕子将容易觅得到他们的食物，吃饱后燕群会在燕屋附近飞。这说法我不否认，但我认为还有另一个更主要的原因。

我有注意到在雨季时，当我去进入我的燕屋，将看到很多的燕子在燕屋里孵蛋。我也注意到，燕蛋将需要更长的时间孵化成小燕子比起旱季。由此推论，燕屋在雨天温度将降至大约二十五六度的，因此，那些燕子父母需要一直保温燕蛋，他们会轮流孵化，也不会到远处觅食。因此下雨天会有许多燕子在燕屋外飞行和在燕屋里孵蛋，我将不会在下雨天或阴天进入燕屋采割燕窝或任何维修以避免打扰它们孵蛋特别是在雨季。