Hello Rob and tweeters,
I worked on my roof today cleaning the gutters,and since I am up there,I
checked the box under the eves where my Violet-green Swallows been nesting
for the last 20 years.First I knocked on the house ,nothing moved.So I open
the box what had a nice nest with soft white feathers.And in the middle
there was 5 little white eggs,and no parent's around.So it looks that this
eggs are abandon to.I been seeing no Swallows around.I do have both
Chickadees with young and Robins with there young and Steller's Jay with
three young and Red-breasted Nuthatches and others,This nest looks fresh
also untouched and perfect build.

Cheers Ruth Sullivan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Sandelin" <floriferous at msn.com>
To: <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 9:36 AM
Subject: [Tweeters] Nesting failures


>I have had coopers hawks, violet green swallows, and a pacific slope
> flycatcher all abandon nesting in the last 3 weeks. I am wondering if this
> is local or a region wide response to the colder than usual spring? I
> have
> seen fledgling towhees, juncos, winter wrens and song sparrows this week
> so
> the residents who started early seem to be coping.
>
> Rob Sandelin
> Naturalist, Writer
> Snohomish County, WA
>
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