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Re: Odd Swallow behavior?




Shelley,


Just yesterday Northern Rough-winged Swallows arrived at my work place. One landed on the gravel not 20 foot from me for a great look. They nest every year under the semi trailers across the parking lot from our office. Likely your swallow was the same.

Randy Emmitt
Durham, NC


At 04:05 PM 4/17/2003 -0400, Shelley Theye wrote:
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