Subject: January Barn Swallow sightings
Date: Jan 23 13:47:20 2003
From: Blake Iverson - coopershwk at hotmail.com


Do you think that these birds have been here the whole winter? It hasn't
been a cold winter. You would think that if weather has triggered a false
sense of need to migrate in these few individuals, then it would have
affected some others and we'd see more reports. Maybe these birds have
decided that it's warm enough that they can come out to these more "natural"
places and hunt for food or maybe their food source has run dry for now and
they've moved. I don't know. I wouldn't be surprised if a few barnies found
a place that is realtively warm because of the way the land is formed and
the way the weather systems work around "that" area. Just throwing out
ideas. If anything, I'd think it would be tree swallows and v-g swallows
that would be arriving early due to warmer than normal weather temperatures.


Blake Iverson
Arlington, WA
coopershwk at hotmail.com

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