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I put up nesting boxes for swallows around the end of April each year, but decided to get them out a couple of weeks early this year. As I was positioning the first one, my grand daughter exclaimed, "Look Grampy! There's a swallow!"
She was right. As I walked away, they were checking it out. I was about three yards away from the second before they checked it out. The third is mounted to the top of an old sailboat mast. I had just swung the mast to vertical when a swallow landed on top of the box. The wife took a picture of me trying to get the bolt in the base while the impatient bird is perched on their summer home.
Oi! What a nudge!

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Les