Excellent! I have it bookmarked in a folder with many other bookmarks I am
going to put up on a website...sort of like a FAQ, but I won't be writing it. I
would be far to biased.


On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 20:34:35 GMT, "Larry" wrote:

This is the link that show the plans for the tower -
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/nature/b...wift-index.htm


"animaux" wrote in message
news
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 21:37:49 -0500, Rusty Mase
wrote:

I had some that lived in a little space over my garage some years ago
and it was nice to go get the paper in the early morning as they
returned and patrolled my yard for their last feeding of the night.

But I think I am developing a soft spot for chimney swifts. I had
neighbors with a swift colony in their chimney and during the summer
they can be intrusive (noisy) prior to fledging their young. The
neighbors are gone but the swifts and chimney are still there - but
you never know when the new neighbors may tire of them. I suspect
good chimney swift chimneys and patient chimney swift chimney owners
are much rarer around here than bridges.

Rusty Mase

It's really sad that in the vast spaces in this country that much of the
nations
population of martins and bluebirds depend on human intervention to feed,
raise
young and have water that doesn't kill them.

Someone asked how much an area the swallows need to nest. For barn
swallows, it
seems all they require is a vestibule which has cover and in shade. Up
north,
my mother lives on the ocean and the swallows nest around and under her
eaves.

Martins don't build mud nests, but are cavity nesters. If we don't supply
them
with habitat, we may see them gone in a hundred years or so.

I know I sound like a fatalist, maybe I am, but it's sad to me that wild
life
has to depend on use to provide food and shelter or they may disappear.

V