{"id":10384,"date":"2025-07-24T13:29:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T20:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/?p=10384"},"modified":"2025-07-24T13:29:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T20:29:27","slug":"swallows-at-audubon-spring-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/24\/swallows-at-audubon-spring-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Swallows At Audubon, Spring 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This year we heard of reports of an American Redstart near the Audubon Center at Chatfield. During a late afternoon in early June, we headed down to the Audubon Center to see for ourselves; we did find a nesting pair. Later when returning back to our vehicle, we stopped off near the Center. Here we found a Tree Swallow perched on the roof of a bird feeder.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Tree Swallow On Feeder Roof, Audubon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

After a while, we noticed a second Swallow flying close by, so I decided to approach closer to capture this image of the female bird on the feeder roof.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Female Tree Swallow, Audubon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Soon it became apparent that this was a breeding pair; the male bird flew in.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Male And Female Tree Swallow, Breeding Pair, Audubon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

And began mating with the the female.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Tree Swallow Mating, Audubon, No 1.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

This continued several times over the next 15 minutes that we were there. Here is another image of the male flying in.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Male Tree Swallow Flying In To Mate Audubon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

I made several images of the mating pair before we returned home.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Tree Swallow Mating, Audubon, No 2.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

We were both fortunate to see this mating display as well as the nesting Redstart!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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