I also watched a swallow at the Greenlake kids pool a couple of years ago, catching a feather, flying up, letting it go, circling around to catch it again and repeating.

Steve Graham
Seattle, Greenlake
amdamgraham at hotmail dot com

Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 04:38:22 +0000
From: vogelfreund at comcast.net
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Violet-green Swallows catching butterflies?



That reminds me of watching two Violet-green Swallows playing catch with a downy feather. One would take it up a ways and drop it; and the other would catch it and do the same. That happened a few times before they got bored. That was at Point Defiance in Tacoma.
Phil HotlenBellingham, WA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rod Gilbert" <rodgilbert1 at comcast.net>
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 8:58:02 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: [Tweeters] Violet-green Swallows catching butterflies?




Has anyone witnessed Violet-green Swallows catching
butterflies in flight before? If so, please email me off
list.

Thanks, Rod


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