Barn swallows and electricity

This 24 May 2016 Dutch video is about barn swallows. Hundreds of them live at a farm. They used to sit down on electricity wires. However, then electricity there moved underground, removing the poles and wires. This meant the swallows lacked places to rest. The farmer decided to have new poles and wires, not for electricity, but for the swallows.

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