tree swallows

[Tim Stover]

tree swallows two of them showed up today got their feather bed ready for them

[flyin-lowe]

I usually know the martins are about 2-3 weeks away when the TS show up.

[dcartwright]

That was true for me 4 to 5 years after I got my first pair of PMs but the last couple of years my first PM has showed within a day or so of the first Tree Swallow. It appears the older birds that survive year after year tend to want to come back earlier the next year.

[pugsleyhall]

Hello Friends!

Because I am a want to be landlord, I cannot let the Tree Swallows nest in my Martin gourds which they so desperately want to do every year (a very common problem I have learned from the forum). This year I placed a bird house a few feet from my established bluebird house which is close to my Martin set up and put a few white feathers in the new house in hopes the TS might try to nest in it. Yesterday, I watched a female bluebird pulling the white feathers out of the new house. I thought the bluebirds might want to change houses and try out the new house so I took all the feathers out of the new house and put them in the old bluebird house. Well, within a few minutes.....you guessed it, the female bluebird was taking the feathers out of the old house! I guess she doesn't want any neighbors!

[D'Nese]

I was outside this afternoon and I too saw a few. Very distinctive coloring and flight!!!! It won't be long for me now!!! WOOO HOOO spring is in the air.