[texbirds] Re: Urban Cave Swallows - Austin

Chuck,
You can add the bridges over Shoal Creek at 24th and 29th streets.
jca

John C. Arvin
Research Associate
Gulf Coast Bird Observatory
103 West Hwy 332
Lake Jackson, TX 77566
jarvin@xxxxxxxx
www.gcbo.org

Austin, Texas


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From: "Chuck Sexton" <gcwarbler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2012 6:12 PM
To: "TexBirds Posting" <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [texbirds] Urban Cave Swallows - Austin

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TexBirders,

While the Cave Swallow has now become a rather ho-hum, common breeder  
in the Austin area, I was still a bit surprised to find two nesting  
colonies in urbanized central Austin.  One small group is nesting  
under the 30th Street bridge at Whitis Ave, just a few hundred yards  
north of the very busy U. T. campus.  Another colony nests in a long  
dark culvert which goes underneath the shopping center at Burnet Road  
and North Loop Blvd, exiting by the back parking lot of the  
Yarborough Branch of the Austin Public Library on Hancock Drive.   
From this evidence, I wouldn't be surprised if someone soon finds  
Cave Swallows under the downtown bridges along Waller Creek in the  
shadow of our tallest skyscrapers.  Amazing example of adaptation.

Chuck Sexton
Austin, Texas
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