From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Sun Mar 7 14:14:50 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i27MD2wi015363 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 7 Mar 2004 14:13:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from hotmail.com (bay4-dav154.bay4.hotmail.com [65.54.171.184]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i27MC0kF015317 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 7 Mar 2004 14:12:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sun, 7 Mar 2004 14:11:58 -0800 Received: from 65.141.5.244 by bay4-dav154.bay4.hotmail.com with DAV; Sun, 07 Mar 2004 22:11:57 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [65.141.5.244] X-Originating-Email: [[[email protected]]] X-Sender: [[email protected]] From: "LINDA ADAMS" <[[email protected]]> To: <[[email protected]]> Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 14:11:56 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: MSN 8.5 Seal-Send-Time: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 14:11:57 -0800 X-MimeOLE: Produced By MSN MimeOLE V8.50.0017.1202 Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 Mar 2004 22:11:58.0147 (UTC) FILETIME=[3522F930:01C40491] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5b1 Subject: [SBB] Another Barn Swallow Sighting X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5b1 Precedence: list List-Id: South Bay Birding List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Errors-To: south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by plaidworks.com id i27MD2wi015363 Well, history doesn't always repeat itself. Yesterday I reported the return nesting male Barn Swallow that arrived 6 March at 5:30 p.m. And according to previous records here, the females usually show up three weeks later. When I finally got my husband Ralph out to take a look, he insisted that it was a female. The male passed by in front of me again, so I reported my sighting. But I was a little nervous about reporting a female when I actually hadn't seen it, so I didn't. In fact, I was thinking about taking away my husband's "Sighting Certification" if he couldn't tell a male from a female. So today, 7 March at 1:00 p. m. I was out investigating around the house to see where I could help them to better secure their nests. The male came swishing past me, but before he was out of sight, the female that I hadn't seen yesterday appeared. And now I'm happy to report that Ralph was right too. It's very likely that when the male Barn Swallow came straight in towards me (and his egg shell feeder) yesterday from the southwest, dropping altitude as he advanced, that his mate was about a minute behind him. By the time Ralph arrived, we were looking at different birds and I was so focused on the male Barn Swallow as he weaved in and out of the Tree Swallow army, that I never noticed her. So please add the return nesting female Barn Swallow, who broke her previous return record and arrived with her mate on 6 March at 5:30 p.m. There's no problem being wrong when the corrected information makes things even better! Linda Adams _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. south-bay-birds mailing list ([[email protected]]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://www.plaidworks.com/mailman/options/south-bay-birds/south-bay-birds-archive%40plaidworks.com This email sent to [[email protected]]