The tree swallows arrived here this morning!!! What fun to see them. They are swooping all over my garden. A pair seems to have claimed the same nesting box where a swallow pair nested last year. I read that our NE tree swallows have been in Florida or Cuba for the winter.
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I saw my first pair of bluebirds this week and the trumpeter swans are back! So exciting to see the birds returning!
I am disappointed that the swallows did not stay at THEIR nest box. The is a pair of house sparrows in the box. No eggs yet, so I went ahead and took their out. I know they'll just rebuild. But I don't want to increase the sparrow population. Darn. Good news, I have a chickadee in the second (new) box. They come and go fast that I mostly just catch them out of the corner of my eye.
We have been waiting for years to see a chickadee come back to our neighborhood. The West Nile virus and ice storm has completely wiped them out here. I've never seen a swallow and that would be quite a treat for us.
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