Late this morning atop Mt. Pleasant, I watched a pair of TREE SWALLOWS, at one of the nest boxes along the road to the towers, starting territory and courtship behaviors. The female (presumably) hung on the front, looking in the hole, while the male (presumably) did "flutter flight" over her and sang the tree swallow song. Then both would fly rapidly about the box, describing mostly eccentric circles. Sometimes one or the other would fly very high in the air doing smaller circles. Initially there was only the pair, but when I left 1.5 hrs. later there were 3 pairs each interested in a different box. Steve FastBrooktondale --
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