Barn swallows are nice little birds to have around. They fly gracefully around and eat a lot of insects. My only disagreement was where they chose to build their nest. Earlier this year, they chose to ...

Here is a typical conversation that I have with fellow birders when I’m trying to bird for swallows. “There’s a swallow. There it goes. Here it comes. I wish it would perch someplace.” Swallows fly a ...

The Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica) is one of eight species of the swallow family that inhabits the state of Texas, and is the only one of its genus. This particular species is an extremely common bird ...

Be grateful for the arrival of barn swallows, those aerial acrobats that scoop up mouthfuls of mosquitoes. They work hard to catch those pesky flying insects around bridges, freeway overpasses, ...

Perched on a wooden bench in our overlook that offers a beautiful view of the swamp any time of the day, but especially in the early morning hours, I checked the camera to see what photos I had ...

The general trend in Marin bird migration is for most of winter’s abundant shorebirds and waterfowl to head north each spring, soon replaced by a variety of mostly insect-eating songbirds from Mexico ...

May is one of my favorite months of the year. Every walk outside is an adventure with something new to discover. One returning visitor excites me more than any other I see: barn swallows. They are ...

Summer is swallow season. Spring migration can in some ways seem like a less-dramatic affair than California’s fall migration of ducks and shorebirds, with a relatively subtle arrival of songbirds, ...

This is the time of the year when some of our summer songbirds head south for the winter. Their leaving makes a blank space in our lives. I will miss the music of the song sparrows, the mockingbirds ...

Whether you hate the mess barn swallows leave or enjoy being able to watch them up close, a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service expert encourages you to plan for these birds’ arrival now. The ...