While picking up my daughter at school this afternoon, heard a
Prairie Warbler singing away.
Then saw a Swallow flying around, that was large and dark under-
neath, like a female Purple Martin.
Last year Kate Finlayson and I saw a perched female Purple
Martin at this same spot.
Here's what seemed strange to us last year. We watched a half
dozen of these birds fly around this area numerous times last spring.
We would watch as they flew into the tail pipes of the parked
school buses. One or two began building nests inside them.
Is this unusual for a Martin to do?
We decided that the 7-8 buses
parked side by side, and their tail pipes all in a row were attractive
to the birds, and maybe they had no other spot to nest.
Which reminds me Kate, we had talked about erecting a Martin
house for those poor birds!!
Shelley
Shelley Theye
N. Chatham County, NC
veery@bellsouth.net