[NatureNS] Great Egret

Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 11:48:38 -0300
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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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