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style=3D'font-size:10.0pt; Re Swallows: I don't know how similar tree swallows are to barn swallows, but the barn swallows I used to have nesting (for 16 years) in my front porch usually hatched 5 young every year. Eleanor Lindsay Dorothy wrote: > > Sorry to be reporting this so late, but my address book wasn’t > cooperating and the mail sent to the list yesterday came back. > > There was a great egret on the upper marshes in Woods Harbour. It was > still there late last evening in the ponds across from Cameron lane ( > the strait stretch before the ballfield,for those who know the area) I > haven’t had the chance to go and see it’s still in there this morning. > > A couple of raccoons who have decided that our place is a good place > to hang out have killed one of the Tree Swallows that nested in our > back yard. Yesterday there was only one adult feeding the young and > this morning there were six swallows flying together and two of them > fed at least one bird that is still in the birdhouse . Some of them > sat on the clothes line and they looked like young birds. Perhaps the > young except one left the nest this morning?? Do families of swallows > join together after leaving the nests? I don’t think they would have > had that many hatchlings. > > We still have two Cedar Waxwings hanging around and there are young > Juncos, Robins, Grackles, and Catbird. > > Happy Birding > > Dorothy and Vandyke > > Popes Rd. > > Woods Harbour, NS >
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