06-20-2012, 06:50 PM
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(06-20-2012, 06:33 PM)tvguy Wrote:(06-20-2012, 06:22 PM)PonderThis Wrote: I can't tell, are those violet green swallows? Not sure what they are, I looked up tree swallows and they look the same They nest in the same boxes that tree swallows nest in, and it seems to depend on your area which ones you get. I've had both.
I still don't think you're going to fill up an apartment house with the birds we have on the west coast. Everything I've read on those is they're for east of the Rocky Mountains, the dividing line for many birds and insects, too.
I don't think so either, that bird hotel has been up there for many years.
The only difference I see in the two kinds of swallows that nest in boxes (that we commonly have around here) is their coloration:
Violet-green swallow:
Tree swallow:
Barn swallows also are around here, but they live in mud nests they build themselves, and not manmade nest boxes: