Date: 8/8/25 7:37 am From: Angela Battle <argusbee23...> Subject: [ia-bird] Barns Or Cliffs
Based on a response from a more experienced group member it is more than possible that the visitors were Cliff Swallows. Their behavior was interesting in the way they swooped all around the house and inside the front porch seemingly checking out existing non active Barn nests and lining up on the power lines out front.
They acted more Barn like than Cliff like and so I assumed they were all Barns but the numbers more closely align with Cliffs and I wish I had 'glassed' them more fully. The Cliffs certainly mixed with the existing Barn Swallow group that has been here all summer.
Nevertheless what a moment (lasted more than an hour).
