The sweet chittering from the sky above me awakened memories so fond that I smiled brightly from within without looking up. I was doing yard work. My eyes and hands concentrated on removing an overly ...

I never tire of watching the aerial acrobatics of swallows as they swoop over fields, darting back and forth to snap up flying insects. With their smooth, flowing flight and pointed wings, they are ...

Learn how to identify a male and female tree swallow. Find out about their nests, song, range map and what tree swallows eat.

Migratory swallows in search of food arrived in west Sonoma County around the beginning of April, when insects were becoming more abundant. The streamlined aerial acrobats will stay here long enough ...

One of the great joys of spring is the first appearance of the tree swallows. In my yard, this event almost always occurs in the first week of April; this year was no exception. It was a close call, ...