Hello Ava T-B, I joined yoir mission. Now to figure out how to upload photos there.
Gordon, I was thinking these might be barn swallows, as i grew up in Ks I've seen my fair share...they LOVE to build their mud nests on the underside of overpasses there...it's incredible...hundreds of nests all together in a mass! The thing that threw me though is the white on their faces....I've never seen this on barn swallows I've seen.
Cliff swallows typically have a white patch on the forehead and build their nests with an entrance hole in the side. I suspect these are actually barn swallows. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barn_Swallo... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Swall... for more information. Like the bird's choice of nesting sites though...grin. That looks like a light fixture they built their nest on. Hopefully, no one turned on the light for any length of time as the nest would have gotten pretty hot.
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I think the white on their faces is because they are still babies. It's their "put food right here" marking.
Click on "edit this spotting" and then go down from there to your missions, and click on "Nests, hives..."
Hello Ava T-B, I joined yoir mission. Now to figure out how to upload photos there.
Gordon, I was thinking these might be barn swallows, as i grew up in Ks I've seen my fair share...they LOVE to build their mud nests on the underside of overpasses there...it's incredible...hundreds of nests all together in a mass! The thing that threw me though is the white on their faces....I've never seen this on barn swallows I've seen.
Cliff swallows typically have a white patch on the forehead and build their nests with an entrance hole in the side. I suspect these are actually barn swallows. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barn_Swallo... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Swall... for more information. Like the bird's choice of nesting sites though...grin. That looks like a light fixture they built their nest on. Hopefully, no one turned on the light for any length of time as the nest would have gotten pretty hot.
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