Swallow tale

A few weeks ago a swallow started to make a nest under the eaves of my apartment.
After the nest was completed, the bird stayed there all the time so I figured she'd laid some eggs.
I don't really like birds because their legs look creepy, but I was hoping that those eggs would hatch okay.
Looking up the nest to check if they have hatched or not became one of my routines.

Last week I got a great shock when I found that the nest had fallen over to the ground.
There were three baby swallows in it and they were all dead, or at least they looked dead at the time.
When I was trying to pick them up in a bag to make a grave for them I realized that one of them was still alive....ugh that was a cruel sight.I wanted to save its life but knew there was nothing I could really do for a baby bird that even had no feather yet.
The next morning when I had a look at the fallen nest the baby birds were all gone.
They weren't there.....I guess they were preyed upon by some cats or crows or whatever.

Actually it wasn't the first time a swallow'd failed in its nest making/child care up my eaves.
I've seen a fallen nest on the ground and broken eggs around it twice before.
The worst case was when a snake(yes snake!) crowled up to the nest and ate the eggs.
I couldn't believe what I saw.The snake was lying coiled in the small nest with three humps on its belly.....ahhhh three eggs must have been swallowed.That was horrible.

I knoe that's the food chain. I know that's the law of nature.
The snake had to eat something to survive too I suppose.

But I had to take my revenge for the mather swallow's sake.
I sprayed a pesticide for cockroaches upon the snake not knowing if it would work on it but I had no other weapons.The snake soon fell over to the ground and crawled down to a ditch nearby.

A few days after that, I found the snake dead in the ditch.

I'm sorry for all the snake lovers out there, but I felt good.