|
|
Also see Nest ID Matrix (contents) and Egg ID Matrix (color, spots, etc.)
To see other cavity nester bios/photos:
![]() Much sloppier than Tree Swallow nests I see in CT. Nest description: Shallow, loosely constructed, sloppy nest made of straws, dry grasses, strips of bark rootlets, pine needles, lined with abundance of feathers (white preferred?). Occasionally fur or horsehair? Sometimes wood chips, plant down, fiberglass insulation, string, rope and paper. Cupped middle? |
||
![]() Egg description: 4-6 (rarely 7) subelliptical to oval white eggs, no markings, smooth to non-glossy to slightly glossy. (Indistinguishable from Tree Swallow.) |
||
![]() |
||
![]() has very little time to rest while gathering his bits of twine and twig.” And this one actually DID use a twig! |
||
![]() |
||
![]() ![]() |
||
![]() |
||
![]() |
||
![]() |
||
![]() |
||
![]() |
||
![]() |
More Information and Links:
- Sipapu Blog on VGSW (Tina Mitchell)
- Mac’s page on VGSW
- All About Violet-green Swallows, Sialis.org
- James Reserve bluebird trail (San Jacinto)
The student of Nature wonders the more and is astonished the less, the more conversant he becomes with her operations; but of all the perennial miracles she offers to his inspection, perhaps the most worthy of admiration is the development of a plant or of an animal from its embryo.
-Thomas Henry Huxley, British biologist and educator. Reflection #54, Aphorisms and Reflections, selected by Henrietta A. Huxley, Macmillan, 1907.