Hi All:

When I lived in the Greenlake area, violet-green swallows woke me up more
often than I liked. Usually this was between 3:00 and 4:00 AM. I'm *not* a
morning person - I don't want to hear anything at 4:00 AM. My windows were
closed, but I could still hear them. I posted something to Tweeters about
it, and the responses I got indicated pre-dawn flights by swallows weren't
uncommon.


Ruth Taylor
Seattle/Ballard
rutht at seanet.com

-----Original Message-----
From: MARK BILTZ <vickibiltz at msn.com>
To: tweeters post <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Date: Sunday, June 13, 2004 10:17 AM
Subject: flying birds at 3 AM?


>Hi, I had the misfortune of not being able to sleep last night. While in
my
>kitchen I hear what sounded like swallows flying around in the light rain
>about 3 in the morning.
>I find this completely baffling and am wondering if this happens much. I
>could not really see anything, but they were definitely in the air and
>making swallow like noise, (violet-green). I thought perhaps their nest was
>disturbed, but also wonder if this happens on occasion, perhaps a midnight
>'swim' in the rain?
>Vicki Biltz
>Bonney Lake Wa.
>vickibiltz at msn.com
>
>Children have their sorrows as well as men and women,
>it would be well to remember this in our dealings with them.
> Frederick Douglass
>