Monday, June 10, 2013,

A few posts back, I mentioned that many birds make use of the Bluebird boxes at Avalon Preserve. Here are some shots of a pair of Tree Swallows who have claimed one of those boxes for their own. In the shot above, the female has just returned to the box with a likely-sized twig for the nest she’s building. 

This shot shows the male keeping watch over the box. He does a lot of this. Apparently, you can’t trust the neighbors. This kind of thinking from a swallow nesting inside a Bluebird house. Go figure.

JK