[texbirds] Re: Urban Cave Swallows - Austin
- From: "John Arvin" <jarvin@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <gcwarbler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "TexBirds Posting" <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 12:59:26 -0500
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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