Post 1. Welcome To One Season With The Tree Swallows At Salmon Creek
Post 2. What A Strange, Strange Winter This Has Been
Post 3. It’s Cold Here Near The Big Lake
Post 4. Fogged In
Post 5. The First Of Several Thousand Pictures
Post 6. The Good Weather Continues But No Increase In Swallows
Post 7. More Warmth And More Swallows
Post 8. Summer’s Over
Post 9. Fighting To Live Through The Cold
Post 10. Looks Like They Made It
Post 11. Yes, They Are Tough Critters
Post 12. A Bad Day To Be A Tree Swallow
Post 13. Sunshine And Swallows
Post 14. New Arrivals
Post 15. The Intraspecific Competition Increases
Post 16. Correcting A Mistake
Post 17. An Experiment Begins
Post 18. Things Seem To Be Settling Down To “Normal”
Post 19. A Possible Reason For No Bluebirds At Salmon Creek This Spring?
Post 20. Tree Swallow Feeder Experiment #2
Post 21. When Is Nest Building Finally Going To Start?
Post 22. Math Is Dictating Much Of The Behavior Now
Post 23. Second-Year Tree Swallows Have Arrived
Post 24. Warmer Weather But Still No Nest Building
Post 25. A Monster Day For Raptors At Braddock Bay
Post 26. Tree Swallow Feeder Experiment #3
Post 27. Drama At Box 3
Post 28. Choices On A Dismal Day
Post 29. Box Design Can Affect Swallow Survival
Post 30. This Is What Starvation Looks Like
Post 31. A Recovery Day And A Surprise
Post 32. If Statistics Don’t Lie We’re On The Verge Of “Real” Nest Building
Post 33. A Takeover Attempt At Box 7
Post 34. The Bobolinks Are Back And The Swallows Building At Last
Post 35. So, What Are The Males Doing While The Females Build?
Post 36. The Migration Event Of The Week Wasn’t Birds, It Was Butterflies
Post 37. Tree Swallows As Individuals: Meet “The Big Guy”
Post 38. Here’s A Nest Building Progress Report
Post 39. Yes, Birds Do It, And Tree Swallows Do It A Lot
Post 40. Some Boxes For The Floaters And Some Relief For The Residents
Post 41. The Floaters, Now Residents, Catch Up (With Some Help)
Post 42. Female Versus Female: A Takeover At Box 11
Post 43. A Box 13 Update, And Something Else
Post 44. A Quiet Tree Swallow Grid? Really?
Post 45. What The Swallow Nests Tell About An Invasive Species
Post 46. More And More Eggs Every Day
Post 47. The Heat Is On: Incubation At The Grid
Post 48. Control Sheets: Grid Nest Status At A Glance
Post 49. Homemade Predator Guards: Protection On The Cheap
Post 50. Some Bluebird Boxes Are Miserable Little Death Traps
Post 51. There’s A New Girl In Box 2
Post 52. Ridiculous Idea #1: Why I Think Second-Year (SY) Female Tree Swallows Are Brown, Not Blue
Post 53. A Visit To The Braddock Bay Bird Observatory
Post 54. Hatching Part 1: The Race Is On
Post 55. Egg Laying Summary And Hatching Part 2
Post 56. Trapping And Banding Adults
Post 57. Brood Reduction Young: The Unlucky Latecomers
Post 58. Fostering: Leveling The Playing Field For Survival
Post 59. Supplemental Feeding Of Tree Swallow Nestlings
Post 60. My, How You’ve Grown! From Hatch To 12 Days
Post 61. Banding Nestlings And The 12 Day Limit
Post 62. Who’s Your Father? Extra-Pair Paternity In Tree Swallows
Post 63. Ridiculous Idea #2: Why I Think Second-Year (SY) Male Tree Swallows Are Blue, Not Brown
Post 64. This Is A Year For The Record Book So Far
Post 654. We’re In The Home Stretch: Tree Swallow Nestlings Get Ready To Fledge
Post 66. Most Nestling Tree Swallows At Salmon Creek Have Fledged
Post 67. Fledging Update 2 And The Late Nest
Post 68. The Season Summary And Assessment
Post 69. Why I Wrote This Blog
Post 70. One Last Report And Two Thanks