Nature Done Wright

Incorporating the Celery Farm and Screech Owl Companion blogs

April 12, 2013

How the Swallow Got in the Tube

IMG_6529-003For my column in The Record yesterday, I had a photo of a Tree Swallow in a nesting tube at the Celery Farm. 

I
always wondered how exactly they flew into the tube. Late last month, I
was lucky enough to get the full sequence, starting here…

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Rest of the sequence follows.

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It flies up to the tube and grips it with its tiny feet…

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and then pops in and turns around…

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