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margin-left: 0px I am sorry Jim, I should have taken better look. As to "many" I guess it means more than three pair.........(what we had here this year) I was excited to see them. I would say there was a combination of barn swallows and some that could have been tree (white under, blue above) but gave the sense of being bigger than the ones here. I would say a rough guess would be at least a dozen of the one maybe two pair of the other but they were up by the big plant's roof and mostly moving awfully fast. I am adjusting to new glasses and when I look up I get seasick. In the shed, barn swallows were all I saw. Cliffs.....I am not all that familiar with them but they are reddish and wrinkly looking under, no? I was looking for swifts and thought maybe but .......I don't think so. Ah, I could send the pictures I took if you were was interested. I think there are two in the girders and more over the plant. be aware my camera isn't very powerful and some of the outside ones hardly show anything at all. I didn't go that far inside but I saw at least four nests that were occupied and about to fledge and there were others that had been occupied if the waste beneath was anything so......the parent birds were swooping down at me and I didn't want them distressed so I left. Marg http://margmillard.ca ----- Original Message ----- From: "James W. Wolford" <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 5:25 PM Subject: [NatureNS] "swallows"? barn? cliff? at Port L'hebert > Marg, you didn't indicate what species of swallows in the two > different habitats? -- the swallows going into and out from the first > building were presumably barn swallows? and how many is "many"? -- in > the second habitat on the girders sounds like cliff swallows? in > flask-shaped or gourd-shaped nests made from mud? how many nests? > > Cheers and thanks from Jim in Wolfville > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: "Margaret E.Millard" <mmillard@eastlink.ca> >> Date: July 27, 2009 8:08:32 PM ADT >> To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca >> Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Barn swallows >> Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca >> >> I went to Port L'herbert to the old crab plant to see if I could >> get photos. Last time I was there the windows were all smashed out. >> I thought to maybe paint it. This time the windows on the lower >> lever were boarded up but many swallows were zipping in and out. >> Out toward the upharbour side is a biggish vacant low roofed >> storage building open and there were a number of swallow nests >> occupied up in the girders. Little ones peeking out at me. When >> momma said sit down they all disappeared. Poof gone!! I didn't stay >> to disturb them but I did get a quick photo. What a well built >> nest from below. >> Marg Millard, White Point, Queens > >> http://margmillard.ca > >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Dean" >> <aadean@ns.sympatico.ca> >> To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> >> Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 7:45 PM >> Subject: [NatureNS] Barn swallows >> >> >> This sighting seems worth reporting In light of the apparent dearth >> of barn swallows lately. We were pleased to observe 28 on a phone >> line beside a farm in the Chipman Brook area yesterday. >> >> Andy & Lelia Dean >> 86 Baden Powell Drive >> Kentville, NS. Canada. B4N 5P5 >> Tel: [902] 678-6243 >> >> aadean@ns.sympatico.ca > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.392 / Virus Database: 270.13.35/2269 - Release Date: 07/28/09 17:58:00
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