> > [mailto:TWEETERS-owner at u.washington.edu]On Behalf Of lydia
>
> (snip)
>
> > "Dad" made a weird comment. He thought the swallows swooping
> around the
> > golf course were "attacking" the golfers as they swoop and turn just in
> > the nick of time in front of the golfers. I assured him they are only
> > going after flying bugs.
> >
> > Have swallows ever collided with people?
> >

Never. How's that?

After getting a gnat while flying at 20mph and coming out of a
3-G turn, how could a swallow be so "un-swallow" like as to run
into a sloth-like creature such as ourselves? It would be like
you or I walking into the side of a house. :)


It's utterly impossible. No creature makes me feel more
ground-bound and uncoordinated as swallows. Which probably
explains why I routinely sit and watch them navigate and hunt the
small viaducts on the wasteways adjacent to our farms.

Eric Henriksen
High River Vineyards
WA State