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"Willi" wrote in message
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snakefiddler wrote:


Different places, different names, same bird.


yeah, and noisy as hell.......
snake


They're handsome birds, beautiful in flight and active swallows
generally mean good fishing.

Willi





yep, they are always out in force when i am fishing at price lake. i
figured if they were active, there must be a good supply of insects, hence
good fishing. that much i have figured out and yes, they are gorgeous
birds- they possess beautiful iridescent colors, and its great fun to watch
their acrobatics, which can seem totally chaotic to one who is unfamiliar
with the reason for their behavior.

snake

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"Sandy Birrell" wrote:
Charlie Wilson wrote:
"Willi" wrote:
Some pix of a bunch of swallows I came across while fishing this
evening.

http://crystalglen.net/Fishing/061204.htm

Those look just like the little *******s that have been trying to
build their mud nests in the bricks above my front door for the past
month. I think we finally discouraged them by stuffing mothballs
between the bricks.

I would say the birds Willie saw were Sand Martins

http://www.rspb.org.uk/birds/guide/s...rtin/index.asp

and what you saw were Swallows

http://www.rspb.org.uk/birds/guide/s/swallow/index.asp

Notice the difference in the legth of the tail, the Swallows being more
forked.

Sandy,
Nice links, thanks. I stand by my original statement because:
1. I live about ten mile from Willi and often fish that lake and,
2. I've been fighting those sumbitches off for the past month.

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On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 17:19:38 GMT, "Charlie Wilson"
wrote:



Charlie,
who considers this an on-topic post, since I wouldn't even own
mothballs if I didn't have a dresser stuffed full of fur and
feathers.

Dump the mothballs and go for zip lock or vacuumed baggies. There's
an association of mothballs and heart attacks.
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On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 21:11:19 -0600, Willi wrote:

Some pix of a bunch of swallows I came across while fishing this evening.

http://crystalglen.net/Fishing/061204.htm

Willi


Whew...when I saw the subject, I was afraid it was more ROFFhouse Forum
stories from Elly and Jethro...or even Jethro and Kenny finally making
up...but then I saw the author, and thought, well, whatever it is, it
might be pretty interesting...or well, at least REALLY strange...

Anyway, it must be a Hitchcock kinda weekend, because we had some pretty
cool bird happenings down our way, too. We've got a tall pine tree
near the house that contains a kite/hawk nest, and I've been seeing (and
hearing - for those that have never heard a kite/hawk family in a tree
about 100 feet away, it's impressive) them since arriving last week. We
lucked into seeing the two chicks take their first flights this morning.
Pretty impressive how fast they went from gliding out of the nest to
flying around with some measure of control. One startling moment for us
all, humans and I'm sure, the bird alike, was when one of them glided
over to an old, rotten pine (with about 30-40 feet of trunk left) that
I'd been meaning to take down, landed hard on the single stub of a
branch, and its coupla pounds were just enough to send it over...amazing
how a tree, rotten or otherwise, can withstand windstorms and the like,
and then, snap like a twig by having a young, albeit somewhat large,
bird land in/on it.

TC,
R

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On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 04:33:42 GMT, wrote:

ne of them glided
over to an old, rotten pine (with about 30-40 feet of trunk left) that
I'd been meaning to take down, landed hard on the single stub of a
branch, and its coupla pounds were just enough to send it over...amazing
how a tree, rotten or otherwise, can withstand windstorms and the like,
and then, snap like a twig by having a young, albeit somewhat large,
bird land in/on it.

Cool. A nice finale to your sight of their first flights.
--

rbc:vixen,Minnow Goddess,Willow Watcher,and all that sort of thing.
Often taunted by trout.
Only a fool would refuse to believe in luck. Only a damn fool would rely on it.

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Charlie Wilson wrote:
"Sandy Birrell" wrote:
Charlie Wilson wrote:
Nice links, thanks. I stand by my original statement because:
1. I live about ten mile from Willi and often fish that
lake and,
2. I've been fighting those sumbitches off for the past
month.

The point I should have made was that Sand Martins/Bank Swallows make their
nests in burrows in soft banks, hence their name, while Swallows make their
nests out of mud stuck under the eaves of houses, as yours were doing. I
don't think Sand Martins/Bank Swallows ever make nests like Swallows though
I may be wrong. They are both migrants in the UK and arrive here at
different times of the year, the Swallows arriving later, and as
snakefiddler says they can be noisy.

I have just had a thought, maybe yours are House martins.

http://www.rspb.org.uk/birds/guide/h...rtin/index.asp

Just to complicate it even more :)




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Charlie Wilson wrote:
Nice links, thanks. I stand by my original statement because:
1. I live about ten mile from Willi and often fish that
lake and,
2. I've been fighting those sumbitches off for the past
month.

I have just found this site which is more relevent to North America.

http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/bbs/bbs.html

It seems you don't have House Martins :)

http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/id/fram...l#Hirundinidae



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"Willi" wrote in message
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Some pix of a bunch of swallows I came across while fishing this evening.

http://crystalglen.net/Fishing/061204.htm

Willi



More Swallows
mean Less Storks.


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Willi wrote in message ...

They're handsome birds, beautiful in flight and active swallows
generally mean good fishing.

That reminds me of a trip I made to my favorite river about a month
back. Fishing was slow and I sat down for a few minutes just to take
in the sights and I saw a couple of cliff swallows chasing a buzzard.
He must have ventured into their territory, because they were
divebombing him just like a couple of little fighter-planes. They
would swoop at him, peck as they went by and then circle and dive
again. After they had their turn, a couple more swallows went after
him.

They went two-by-two after this buzzard who was fifty times their
size and they didn't stop until they had driven him completely away
from the area. It was an amazing display of teamwork and aerobatics,
yet almost painful to watch. :-)


Chuck Vance

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On 14 Jun 2004 04:58:44 -0700, (Conan The Librarian)
wrote:

Willi wrote in message ...

(snipped)

They went two-by-two after this buzzard who was fifty times their
size and they didn't stop until they had driven him completely away
from the area. It was an amazing display of teamwork and aerobatics,
yet almost painful to watch. :-)


Try a slow paddle close by their cliff nests some time. They don't
like humans, either, but if you ignore them and don't get any closer
to the nests, they're harmless. I have no idea, and no intention of
finding out, what they'd do with a human who sidled up and grabbed
onto the rock by the nests.
--

rbc:vixen,Minnow Goddess,Willow Watcher,and all that sort of thing.
Often taunted by trout.
Only a fool would refuse to believe in luck. Only a damn fool would rely on it.

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