Several years ago while riding the Keller Ferry from Grant County to
Ferry County, Ken Knittle and I noted a pair of Barn Swallows nesting
on the moving 80 foot long boat which makes many 10-minute crossings
every day. The adult swallows foraged over the water as the ferry
moved along.

Go to this link to read about the ferry...
http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Regions/Eastern/KellerFerry/

Scott R a y
Yakima, WA

On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 1:12 PM, <johntubbs at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> Probably all of us have seen or heard stories about the propensity of some
> species of wrens to build their nests in some very improbable locations.
> Here is a story I saw on the TN-BIRD list that I thought might be of
> interest to some folks.
>
> John Tubbs
> Snoqualmie, WA
> johntubbs at comcast.net
> www.tubbsphoto.com
>
>
> -------------- Forwarded Message: --------------
> From: Dthomp2669 at aol.com
> To: tshane at charter.net, tn-bird at freelists.org
> Subject: [TN-Bird] Re: Carolina Wren Building Nest in an Old Kitchen Cabinet
> Drawer.
> Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 20:57:28 +0000
>
>
> In a message dated 3/7/2008 2:46:16 P.M. Central Standard Time,
> tshane at charter.net writes:
> witness a Carolina Wren start building a nest in our old kitchen cabinet
> drawer
>
>
> When I was a little girl in Florida, we had one that built its nest in the
> toolbox on the passenger side floorboard of Daddy's tractor. That bird rode
> around, sitting on her eggs, while Daddy harrowed the fields. Later on,
> during the second phase of harrowing the fields, the baby birds were in the
> nest
> and "Mama" would fly onto the moving tractor, feed her babies then go
> hunting
> again. She repeated this over ! and ove r while Daddy harrowed his ten acre
> watermelon field.
>
> Dee Thompson
> Nashville, TN
>
>
>
>
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Scott R a y
Aflac Sales Rep
Yakima, WA
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