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["lyneart" <lyneart@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

There is a Barn Swallow nest with babies in my stable. This is later than 
usual. I guess that after being fooled into raising a Cowbird they decided to 
stay late and try again. There are 4 adults taking care of this one nest. They 
all have a particular spot on the power line in the yard that they use as their 
headquarters. In previous years they had a certain spot on the phone line they 
liked to sit but the phone line is underground now.
  I put off clipping until nearly tobacco cutting time hoping the meadow 
nesters would all be done. I still had indications from adult behavior that I 
may have disturbed 2 Dickcissel nests and 2 Meadowlark nests. I later found one 
unharmed Meadowlark nest with young and an unhatched egg that I had passed over 
without harming.  An adult Bobwhite was exhibiting the same defensive behavior 
but it had 5 or more young that were big enough to fly out of the way.
Frank Lyne frank@xxxxxxxxxxx near Dot in Logan County

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