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Bird Notes

1945; University of Alberta Library; Volume: 4; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.29173/bluejay817

2562-5667

Saskatchewan Natural History Society,

Avian ecology and behavior

Bluebirds We have had several reports of Bluebirds this sui:irior, anong which was the following interesting note fron Mrs. 1.Hubbard, Grenfell."You nay renenber."she writes, "that we had an Eastern Bluebird nesting in a cardboard box, vdiich ny husband nailed up inside our granary in 1944, over a hole nade by a woodpecker.This year a pair of Mountain Bluebirds nested ini the sane box and today (lune 20) the young ones were out in the rain.Unlike their Eastern cousins, who were very unobtrusive, those Mountain Bluebirds were quite friendly and always around," Another nenbor pointed out that : Bluebirds seen to stay in family groups, the male birds caring for the first brood of young when they leave the nest, while the female sits on another clutch of eggs -then all move away together^ Cliff Swallows Cliff Swallows are rarely noted in the Y<^rkton-M'olville area and their curious mud nests are even more rarely seen.This season., ,however, L.T* McKin, K.C. was told of a colony of some twenty nests built under the eaves of a new, unpainted barn IG miles north of Melville.Mr. McKim also reported that three pairs of Cliff Swallows had nested against the walls of a stucco house in Mel¬ ville, This last report is of special interest as two years ago, in the spring of 1943, a flock of about thirty Cliff Swallows visited Melville and "daubed mud in fifteen or twenty places on the wall of this particular house and even partly built two or throe nests and then as suddenly vanished."In Yorkton this suiamor wo discovered Cliff Swallows at the farm of Stanley Wood« On July 20, one nest built against Wood's house contained young, but, of some half-dozen nests on the barn, throe had been taken over by English Sparrows-a clear demonstration of one of the main causes of the decrease of the Cliff Sv/allow in the Vifest.